Let Me Tell You About My God!

So these last few weeks have been really stressful. A lot of different challenges have risen up in my life. I’m currently working three jobs to try and pay all of my bills and save whatever little I can for the future. The only of the those that I actually have solid hours happens to be an unpaid internship… Whoops. While working all these different jobs I’m also taking 16 credit hours at college and between classes and work life’s been a tad stressful. With all this going on I’ve felt a bit lonely and frustrated of late. (Sorry if it seems like I’m throwing myself a pity party here, it’ll get better I promise just give me another paragraph or so.) 

       So then just last week my car broken down, taking away my ability to get to one of my jobs and costing a good chunk of money to fix. But I got it taken care of, I thought I was in the clear and I could finish off the last month and a half of this ridiculous semester in my regular stressful but routine way. My car however had other plans. Two days ago it decided to break down once again, this time with transmission problems. Welcome back stress and worry to the max. I honestly had no way to pay to get this fixed. By the way did I mention that my computer also broke down during this time? Yeah that happened too! 

This is where things start to really get good though. In 2 Corinthians 12 it says this, 

  “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

 This past weekend was very difficult for me. I was doing a rather bad job at trusting God with my situation. I felt more defeated then I have in a very very long time. I was completely helpless to change my situation. I was so weak. But, God’s power is made perfect in my weakness. He waited until I couldn’t do a single thing on my own and then all at once he began working. He worked through some amazing people!

    First he helped through my wonderful Father who took off a day of work and drove six hours from Ohio to help me the first time my car broke down. He completely took care of my car for me, spent time with me and fed me. God’s love was given to me in my amazing Dad. Next at the church where I intern with the High School student someone who knew about my broken computer gave me their laptop. Completely unselfishly handing me something of significant earthly value, powering out God’s blessings upon me. That same day my boss, the senior high youth pastor handed me a key and told me I was using his car for the week so I’d have some time to find a way to get mine up and running and also get to the various places I’d need to go throughout the week. 

   Finally he provided me with a way for my car to get fixed. As I was cleaning the dining hall and Grace Bible College (One of my other jobs) I got a call from one of the deacons at my home church in Ohio. A very kind man who for no apparent reason has taken an interest in my life. I’ve come to know him fairly well and whenever I see him he chats with me for a little bit, asks me what I’m learning at college, and always reminds me that he is praying for me. As I was talking to him he gave me the news that the deacons at the church had heard about my car issues had wanted to help pay to get it fixed and back in working order! I must say I stood there in shock for a few seconds and once I hung up the phone I cried a little.

     I was, I am, in awe of how God has taken care of every need I have! I was so helpless but he came through me in amazing ways. And to be honest I wasn’t even doing a good job at trusting him to do that. I was struggling a lot to give my problems over to him. I wasn’t expecting God to take care of me. He did so anyway! The God I serve is so good! He loves me! God! God, loves me! The more I think about that the less I understand it and the more amazed I become. Let me tell you about my God! He cares for me, watches over me, provides for me, considers me his son, and he loves me! God will never fail me! Praise him forever!