So I have to be honest. As I drove home from my son’s practice last night, and caught a glimpse of the latest jump on the gas station sign, it felt like a gut-punch. I knew it was coming, and it’s been uncomfortable already, but it still doesn’t take away the impact of the next blow.
I go home and check the mail to find our homeowners insurance has gone up significantly, with no explanation, other than everything – EVERYTHING- seems to be going up.
My mind immediately started trying to figure things out. Can I squeeze in any more side gigs? Do I need to try to take on a night-job, when my hubby would be home with the kids? How would that affect our family life? How would it affect the time we are able to give areas of ministry that we are involved in?
The longer I pondered it, the more peace-lacking I became.
“I don’t know!” I finally admitted to myself.
I don’t know how to make ends meet.
And if things go up again, I don’t know how that gap will be bridged either. There’s only so much time in a day!
I DON’T know how He will make a way…
BUT I know that He will.
And how do I know?
He’s the God who parted the waters in Egypt when the armies were closing in on His people!
He’s the God who stretched a widow’s “last meal” into enough to feed her and her son AND a prophet for an extended period of time!
He’s the God who fed thousands of people with just a few fish and loaves! More than once!
He’s the God who delivered on His promise to give us babies- more than once- even when it seemed impossible!
He’s the God who has always made ends meet for us-
bringing up “random” opportunities to work (that work around our higher priorities) in ways that we never saw coming…
helping me come across deals on needed items, or even the blessings of hand-me-down clothes for Callen…
even in a pinch causing us to receive refunds in the mail that made no sense at all, that we’d be getting them.
Beyond finances, He is the God who has gotten us mentally, spiritually, through so many messy feelings and situations. He ALWAYS comes through!
So- I don’t know how He will make a way for us to get through this mess of an economic time.
If I did, no faith would be required.
My feelings don’t like to have to rely on faith.
I like it a whole lot better when I think I CAN see how it will all work out.
But- alas- God is more concerned with our growth in faith than our feelings. Yet even then, when we come to Him- He comforts us in those.
This quote from a Billy Graham book I am reading really jumped out to me today. So I thought I’d share in case anyone else is feeling gut-punched by the gas prices (along with the impact of everything else going on in our tumultuous world: the wars, the violence, the social immorality, just everything)!
We can turn punches 🤜🏻 into fist-bumps, by adding a “BUT” at the end.
This world is crazy.
Politics are crazy.
Prices are crazy.
The pressure is intense.
BUT- God isn’t done. Or gone.
BUT- this world isn’t our home.
BUT- Great things are ahead, when we are walking towards Him. And even if we don’t see them in this life, we will see them in the one to come!
Adulting is hard- maybe even impossible right now, without Him.
BUT- WITH HIM- we got this.
“We” meaning Him.
I don’t “got” anything.
But He’s got me and that’s enough to keep me from going totally crazy!
And He’s got you too.
So – no matter how high the tension gets- let’s turn our eyes HIGHER— up, and back onto Him.
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