Phil, yep, we can get into trouble messing around in the wrong
department. We have enough to do in our departments, anyway.
earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>I have been asking the Lord some questions about what we sometimes call
>living by faith. This generally meant to me, as I grew up in church, that a
>missionary or a preacher who traveled, made his money by the offerings taken
>for them. I am not sure that it meant that at all but it was what I was
>taught. So, money has always been, as they say in Britain, a bug up my
>nose. So, as I said, in recent weeks, I have been asking God some pretty
>big theological questions. Well, big for me, little for Him. So, one day,
>the Lord gives me what I believe to be part of the answer but I won't go
>into all that now. I want to tell you how He simplified what I learned
>several days ago by what He told me today. I won't go into the details of
>my train of thought because it isn't really relevant, other than to me, but
>I got to thinking about a father taking his little girl to the dentist.
>This is likely because of my recent painful, and expensive, dental
>experience. Anyhow, like I said, there is no reason to tell you how I came
>to this thought because it wouldn't make sense anyhow. So, I'm standing in
>the kitchen, getting ready to go to a family doctor's appointment I had this
>morning for some blood tests, and as I was blowing my nose with a tissue I
>pulled from the box on top of the microwave, no fooling, I was thinking
>about a father taking his little daughter to the dentist. The basic picture
>I was sort of seeing in my mind was that the family were strong believers in
>living by faith. By that I mean, they rarely ever went to the doctor for
>anything; they just prayed and trusted God for a miracle. The little girl,
>however, had a problem that wasn't going away. The father and his family
>had no insurance of any kind but he knew he had to take his little daughter
>to the dentist. He called and made an appointment. As he was taking his
>daughter in the car, the little girl was crying from the pain and fear. Her
>father tried comforting her by telling her it would be all right. The
>little girl said, "But Daddy, I know we don't have any extra money for
>this." Her father said, "Honey, that isn't your department. That's my
>problem. I don't want you worrying about something that isn't your
>problem." then it hit me what God had been trying to tell me about trusting
>Him for finances. The Lord showed me in an instant of time that I was His
>little child. I was worrying and working at things that weren't my
>responsibility but His. All I just described took maybe four seconds but
>all I described I saw and heard in that short period of time. I need to
>remember to remain as a little child because He is the big Father. Besides,
>He's got no problems coming up with what His children need. Now,
>theologically, and Biblically, I already knew this. This morning, however,
>the Lord spoke His truth into my spirit and I understood it for the first
>time in my life.
>
>Phil.
John
No one is perfect, but some of us are closer than others
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