Learning to Trust God More

From Seth

As most of our readers are aware, Laura and I are in the process of raising our financial support for this adventure of going to Faith Academy to teach missionary kids.  We have seen God's hand at work at every turn as we continue to talk to groups of people about our vision for teaching at Faith, what we hope to accomplish there, and the steps of faith that have led us to this point.  We are constantly amazed to see how God works in the hearts of our friends and family as we share with them our call to serve as missionary teachers.

But even as we see God work so powerfully in our lives, and in the lives of the people around us, we have to face the fact that we are only halfway to our monthly support goal.  Our generous supporters have already pledged close to $2,000 per month, but we still need to raise the same amount more before we can leave.  On the one hand, we know that God is FAR greater than $2,000 per month to allow Laura and I to follow His call to the Philippines.  But on the other hand, my own human nature constantly whispers in my ear, trying to get me to worry.  

God has interesting ways of working in our lives.  Even as He demonstrates His power, and confirms His call on our lives, He also makes sure that we cannot pretend that we were able to serve Him through our own power or our own efforts.   He makes it crystal clear that we must depend on Him for everything.  In my case, He is simply telling me to do my part (talking to people about what God has called me and Laura to do) and to let Him worry about the rest.  It requires and incredible amount of trust in God, His goodness, His call on our lives, and His ability to provide the funding that will allow us to fulfill His call.  It is a daily struggle to put my trust in Him, to believe in His ability to take care of everything.  But then, I suppose that is no different from what He has called every Christian to do, every day.