I hung up the phone, tears streaming down my face. I needed to get home. I grabbed my phone to start looking at airline tickets online. $835, $727, $780…….those prices were not what I wanted to see.
“God, do you still want me to go home?” I asked.“Yep,” he responded.
“But these prices are so high. You’re going to need to shave a couple hundred dollars off,” I replied.
“Okay,” he responded via a coworker’s text message informing me of airline bereavement fares.
I called the airline and shortly thereafter had secured a ticket home for the following evening. I doled out the $530 without hesitation (as it was in fact a few hundred dollars less as I had requested). However, I did not know how exactly I was going to actually pay the credit card bill when it arrived.
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A few hours previous…..
“Well, unfortunately in our society sometimes we just aren’t able to travel when we need to because of the costs,” my mom compassionately said over the phone.
“The number one inhibitor I see preventing people from doing what God calls them to is money,” I told her, “I’ve had innumerable conversations telling people who are interested in missions that if the only thing holding them back is the price tag, then they should do it. Turns out $4,500 or $15,000 or any other sum of money is not too much for God. My own experience with support raising is that God will always provide. He funds the things he calls us to. If I believe that in relation to support raising, then why would it be any different in my everyday life?”
“Yeah, that’s a good point,” she said.
“If I let money stand in the way of what God has called me to, then who am I really worshiping, God or money? I choose to worship God. I’m coming home,” I told her despite my not knowing how I would get there.
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A few days later…
“Would you like to put this all into checking?” the bank teller politely asked.
“Yeah, that’s perfect,” I responded as I watched her fill out the deposit slip to reflect the totals on each check. $100, $200, $100, $100…..
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Over the course of my visit at home I had various people unexpectedly hand me checks totaling $500. People who had no idea how I got home and certainly did not know how much it cost. People who had not been planning for my arrival. People who have no idea that the check they wrote read “GOD IS FAITHFUL” to me.
God is, will be, and always has been faithful in EVERY way to his people.
I pray that I don’t let excuses stand in the way of walking in his will.
This is real life.
I pray that I don’t let excuses stand in the way of walking in his will.
This is real life.
