I had just woke up and was in that blissful well rested state. Completely relaxed and super comfortable.The perfect Saturday morning. Coffee in hand, a smile on my face, and a song in my heart.
Unfortunately this feeling did not last long at all. For those who don’t know. My church, Hope City, doesn’t have its own building yet. So we use a few local high schools to host services. During the week everything we use to transform a school into a church is stored in trailers. Those trailers have to be moved from storage to school each weekend. This particular day I was moving trailers.
As I stepped out of the door I noticed some rain clouds pouring down nearby. Which at the time added to my state of peaceful bliss. Who doesn’t love a good summer rain? I made my way over to Autozone to pick up some power steering fluid for the truck I was using that day. When I walked out with the fluid the rain had migrated its way to where I was at and it was coming down pretty hard as well. I wasn’t as worried about it as I should have been. Until I dropped the cap for the power steering fluid reservoir somewhere into the engine bay and it never hit the ground. It was nowhere to be seen and the dark gray clouds overhead weren’t helping me at all. Everywhere I looked was just too dark to see a black cap. As I was scrambling to see where I had so clumsily dropped this cap I was steadily getting more and more wet. All the way through my clothes down to my skin. My state of happiness was quickly replaced with a feeling of anxious irritation to find this stupid little cap that had vanished into the black abyss of the engine. Moving hoses around and looking under every nook and cranny there was in this monstrous mess of metal, rubber, and plastic. I was starting to accept the fact that today was just going to outright suck. After what seemed an eternity and ending up behind schedule I did manage to find the cap and get it back on. I got back into the truck and slammed the door shut. I just sat there for a second trying to get some composure back when I heard a voice quietly yet strongly tell me to “Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
I immediately knew it was God telling me to “suck it up buttercup” but much more lovingly. If you’re going to do this mission trip for a year you’re going to have deal with doing things you normally would hate to do, because you’re doing this for MY glory so that I can grow YOU in ME. (side note, it just starting raining right now as I’m sitting here typing this up. I’ll take that as affirmation. No I didn’t check the weather) I am reminded that rain brings growth and growth is what I have needed for so long. So many aspects of this trip are absolutely uncomfortable and can be scary. But this a work that God is doing and that He will see brought to completion according to His plan and His purpose. Needless to say I was deeply humbled and although still sopping wet head to toe. I went about my day and felt an even greater peace than I had even started with that day. My God is with me and I am with Him. No matter what.
