Can't Believe It

I love watching as Tommy challenges God and then God answers. We had another one of those nights tonight. Last week Tommy's semi blew a motor. A LOT of money later (we decided the best course was a brand new motor for his current truck instead of a junk yard motor or a new truck) Tommy is asking "WHY GOD?!?!". Tonight we were talking about it again. Then I left to workout because Tommy was done talking about it. When I got home Tommy tells me an member of our Elder board called and said they want to help. Not sure what the "help" is going to be but the call alone was an answer.

I have mixed emotions about receiving money from our church. I just don't feel like we need it THAT much or are worthy of it for that matter. I know it's not about that though. This is God's way of blessing us and showing us that He remembers us. We need to put our pride aside. We need to thank God. He made us worthy of the gift and that IS the gift.

1 Peter 1:3-9
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.