Okay, you may be starting to wonder if we are making all these stories up…. we too, feel like “is this really happening? Is all this going to come to a screeching hault?” I assure you- this is happening, God is pouring out his blessings on us like a Northwest spring shower (or any season really, it is Washington afterall). I wish I could tell you why it is happening, though, but honestly… we are still trying to figure that out. We are so completely humbled by all this, who are we that God would chose to bless us this way? Why does he continue to love us and provide for us the way he does when we are so undeserving of it? Just two weeks ago we were miserable whiners, doubting in our circumstance. He should have given up on us then and left us to our misery. Instead he chose to remain faithful and bless the socks off of us. I bet you are thinking, “okay after last weeks AMAZING blessing, there can’t possibly be more,” right? At least that is what we were thinking….. once again, we forgot what an amazing God we serve!
So, Friday night was our youth groups outreach event The POW Party- we had two different bands, a screenprinting station where the students could get a t-shirt made, a waxing station where they could have their snowboard or skis waxed, we had pizza and coffee and a rootbeer keg from Boundary Bay and of course a joust from Jump Around. It was a blast! Anyway, my angel friend (you may recall me talking about my angel friend in the beginning of my Guatemala Journey) gave me a Christmas card. Not giving it too much thought, I decided to wait to open it till I got home (after all, she’d probably write something that would make me cry). Well, it did make me cry, cause inside was not only words of love and encouragement but also another undeserving gift. Thank you, Lord, for my angel and her beautiful giving heart, her friendship has been such a blessing to me. More than the gift itself, the fact that you put her in my life at just the right season- that is a true gift. Thank you for sending me your angel, Lord.
Okay, I’m not done yet. Cris went out with our friend Jason on Saturday night to a movie (this is a huge blessing to both of them as they both love watching movies and hanging out together). Afterward, Jason said he had something for us from the Light of the World Prayer Center, I guess they chose a family to bless and guess who they chose? Yep, once again, undeserving us. He handed Cris a bag full of gifts, wrapped and everything! Wow! What a blessing! How cool is that?! Then… I know, there’s more… we went to the Candle light Communion service last night and just before it started our pastor came up to the front row where we were sitting and handed us an envelope and said…”this is from Jesus.” Okay- we’ve come to recognize than when a gift is from “Jesus” that Jesus does not give small gifts, so we waited to open it till we got home where I wouldn’t make a scene by turning into a blubbering mess in public. Without knowing what was in that envelope, I became a humbled, sobbing mess anyway. Who are we? Who are we that God continues to bless us in this way and keep revealing his power of provision over and over again? Why on earth does he love us so much and want to lavish his abundance on us? I just don’t get it! I guess that is the point, right? That we don’t get it- that’s why it’s so amazing and wonderful! We don’t deserve anything he gives us, we don’t deserve his blessing, we don’t deserve his provision, we don’t deserve his love and we certainly don’t deserve the sacrifice he made for us. He gave up his throne and all his magnificent glory to come to earth as a whining, crying, spitting up, poopy diaper human baby! And to a poor family, no less, in a stinky, unsanitary stable! Then later only to be killed by the very people he came to save… knowing all along that they would do that! Ugh! It just turns me into a puddle whenever I think about it. Why us? Why me? And the answer is just as simple as could possibly be…. because he loves us. That’s it, pure and simple! He loves us, so much that he would die for us- so much that even when we don’t deserve it, he continues to persue us and spoil us with abundant blessings.
Praise you, Lord, for how amazing you are and how much you love to lavish us with you magnificent glory! You are truely more than we deserve! Thank you for not giving up on us and loving us beyond what we deserve!