• Nov. 17, 2008
God is God -- (and He is good too!)

Last week was yucky.  I know, that is not an opening line you would expect with this title but, never the less, it is true.  Last week was really yucky.

We were robbed ..... twice.  We have been working on one of our rental properties, fixing it up to sell it.  Thursday night we went down to work on it and found that Jay's miter saw, air compressor and nail gun were missing.  Saturday when we went back a ladder was gone along with a heater.  The robbers were apparently going to steal some of the copper pipes as well until they cut one and found that the water was on.  So they also left a cut water line which left water gushing out into a bathroom from Thursday night till Saturday morning. 

On top of this, we have another rental house in which the renter is over 1 1/2 months behind in rent and is due for another month in the next 10 days.

Last week was yucky.

So what makes me say that God is God and He is good too? 

Yesterday we went to church.  I know, that is not news, we go to church everytime the doors are open.  But yesterday when we went to church, we were hurting.  Just the really down, defeated feeling that creeps in when life's pressures seem so huge.  I appreciate the Psalms so much, because you read of people crying out from the depths of their soul to God.  They pour out their pain before Him, yet they acknowledge Him as faithful.  That is where I was yesterday morning.  I knew that God was faithful, yet I was still in the place of pouring out my pain to Him. 

First, the entire day seemed to be directed precisely to my heart.  From Sunday School, to the music, to the sermon.  All of it spoke of God's sovereignty.  It pointed to the fact that, even when we can see no evidence of it, God is always working His master plan.  I spent much of the morning crying as I felt my Father speak to my heart, "Don't fear, I am working.  Look at the birds of the air, they neither toil nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not of more value than these?"

During the evening service I realized something.  We were singing and I realized something.  I was singing without the slightest tinge of tears!  I was smiling!  I had peace!  How had this happened?  Nothing had changed, no giant check had come in the mail, none of our stuff had been returned.  But my Father had stepped in and filled me with His peace that passes understanding.  And He had done it without me even noticing.  After church I found that Jay had the same experience.  I really expected God to work.  I just expected that He would do something to change my circumstance.  He didn't.  But He gave me something better.  He gave me himself, and that is enough.  I know that in time He will provide the rest, but it will be in His time, not mine, and I am okay with that.  Right now I rest in the fact that God is God, and because of that, I know that He is good, all the time.

Shannon

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