Winter 2010 Newsletter
Praise Him In The Storm
On the third week of February I was in the Fayetteville area in North Carolina. We arrived at a host home on Monday night and we went to Taco Bell for dinner. Before hand I had distinctly remembered that I had my wallet in my pants pocket. The next morning I woke up and it was no where to be found. I thought I had lost it. The whole time I was so worried because my wallet was gone and all of the information needed for identity theft was in there. Thursday night I called my pastor and asked for advice because I knew he would be able to calm me down. It worked for a little bit and then I began to grow worried again. I asked my coordinator to pray for me about peace of mind. She asked me why I wasn't calm and why I wasn't trusting God to come through for me. Growing up I didn't have a lot of trust in my parents to come through for me which I quickly realized manifested a lack of trust in God to come through for me. I had been let down in life by so many people, it was very hard for me to trust. My coordinator prayed for me asked me to read my Bible before I went to bed that night. I read and God lead me to a scripture that showed me no matter what happens, when I trust God to take care of the situation, He will help me through the distress. As long as I take things into my own hands, God can't help me. Before I went to sleep, I told God that I would let go and give Him complete control of my wallet and everything in it. The next morning when we were taking our luggage to the van, my wallet was found underneath one of the suitcases. I truly believe that if I had trusted God sooner, He would have led me right to my wallet sooner.
I want to teach out of Job 1:1-2:13. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? Throughout all this Job did not sin." The story of Jod is an amazing story of trust. Job had it all. The health, the wealth, and the fovor of God. However when God decided to allow Satan to take everthing from Job. Job suffered tons and tons of adversity, yet his faith and trust in God remained strong as he praised God in the adversity and did not sin. He trusted that no matter what happened, God would take care of him. He understood that even unto death God still deserved all the glory.
As the church today we are prone to praising God in the good times but when adversity rises, we question God more then we praise Him. He will not only bless us for staying faithful but He will give us life more abundantly.
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