His faithfulness in every detail

I just wanted to share how the Lord once again surprised me by His faithfulness. I know that I should not be surprised, because He has proven His faithfulness to me so many times before, but once again, I was amazed by His goodness and faithfulness. Here's the story: I had an appointment for my last ultrasound in Brussels, but my husband had class about thirty minutes away for our home and would be there until about an hour before my appointment. So, I had made arrangements for a friend to come and watch the kids so that I could take the train and meet my husband in time for the appointment. Well, my friend told me early last week that she was not able to watch the kids, so things began to get a little crazy. I began to stress out, because I did not have any other options and I knew that I would not be able to take the kids with me on the train by myself, especially since it involved changing trains and dealing with a stroller and lifting a three-year old on and off the train. I really began to panic! What was I going to do? I forgot that the Lord is always in control and that I just need to trust Him. So after, thinking through various scenarios, my husband graciously planned on missing some of his class to come back and pick all of us up and then drive us to Brussels. I finally thought that we had a plan. I forgot that God is in control and that His plans are always better than our plans. Yesterday morning, my husband called me and told me that he had wonderful news for me. His class was ending early and he would be able to come home and have plenty of time to pick us up and take all of us to the appointment. You may think that this is a silly story, but I am once again reminded of how GREAT and MIGHTY my God is and how much He cares for me. I just wanted to thank Him once again for His faithfulness in every detail!!

 

the wind and the waves

As I was reading our morning Bible story to the kids, I was once again reminded of our disobedience and our need for the Lord. The Bible story was about when Jesus was in the boat with the disciples and the huge storm came up. They were all very scared, but Jesus was sleeping. He had nothing to fear. As the story goes on, the disciples woke him up, because they were scared of drowning. Jesus calmed the storm by His words and the disciples were amazed. The passage reads: "In fear and amazement they asked one another, Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."
Obedience is a topic which comes up very often in my house, since we have three little children who do not always want to obey. As we were talking about the story, I reminded them that all of nature obeys Jesus, but we so often do not choose to obey Him. I am amazed by our disobedience and our lack of submission to our Creator. We are quite arrogant to think that we do not have to obey Him, even though all of His other creations obey Him. I was also recently reminded of this truth as I read David Platt's book, Radical. He states, "Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'" Unfortunately, we do this every day. We, as the creation, think that we do not need to obey our Creator. How foolish are we?
May we learn to obey Him just as the wind and the waves do.