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| At the airport |
Do you trust God? Over the past two years God has taught me a
lot about trust, but I know that I still have a long way to go. Today was a perfect example of that ongoing
lesson. Today I learned that trusting
God is seeing the face of a student you taught two years earlier waiting at the
airport in an unknown city ready to help guide you to your next destination. Trusting God is getting into a taxi with your
two kids with some people that you’ve never met who don’t speak your
language. Trusting God is holding your
three year old tightly in your lap in the back of the taxi while it is pouring
down rain and cars are weaving in and out of traffic. Trusting God is leaving your husband (and the
only Spanish speaker in your family) at the bus station with half of your
luggage while the other half of your belongings ride off in a car with another
stranger. Trusting God is walking into
your new home with “basic” furnishings which happens to only include the
kitchen sink in the kitchen (who needs a stove or refrigerator)!
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| Our kitchen |
Trusting God is waiting for over two hours
for your husband and the rest of your luggage to show up at the home of these
people you’ve never met before. Trusting
God is also sitting down to a hot, delicious Mexican meal after being on
airplanes all day that don’t serve food.
Trusting God is being fed by perfect strangers who have, without
hesitation, adopted you into their family because you are a brother and sister
in Christ. Trusting God is when these
same people go through their belongings to make sure you have pillows,
blankets, and sheets to sleep on the first night in a new country. Trusting God is knowing that no detail is too
big or too small for Him. Do I trust
God? You bet I do!
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding. In all you ways
acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
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