Next week is our church’s mission trip to Lower Bucks County. And this week was, depending on how you look at it, either the week of total disaster or the week of God’s miraculous providence. On Wednesday, our service day in Trenton fell through, our location for our garage sale disappeared, and our sound guy for our poverty forum had emergency surgery and was too drugged up to answer his phone. Two of the ministries we were serving with wouldn’t return my phone calls and several of the trip attendees were suddenly vague about their commitment to the week.
And yet, I sit here on Friday night and we have a service day in Trenton and locations for our garage sale, both of which seem better than what we had before. We have our sound taken care of. We have everything booked. And we have people coming. Today, I talked to one of my speakers for the poverty forum and he said, “Two random people have called me this week and asked me about this event. I don’t know what you did, but people are talking about this.”
What did I do? On the one hand, I did a lot of work this week, setting personal records for emails sent and phone calls made. On the other hand, there is clearly something going on that is beyond me. I tend to be a driven person, with a strong desire for control. And every now and then, God comes in and says, “This is bigger than you. Keep working. But know that you succeed because I am in this.”
Clarity comes on the other side of obedience. Wednesday looks ugly. Submit to God. Friday is good.
Well, since you are blogging.. I’ll read. good stuff bro. i’m sitting in a starbucks in willow grove and the manager here told me that he’s going to do his best to come to the forum. i invited him in facebook out of the slight chance he might be interested. looking forward to seeing what God does with this whole week… should be a fun ride.