Faith
I’ve had a problem lately.
I feel like my faith has really been lacking. While I believe God can do anything, I don’t believe He will. Take for instance, my roommate. She’s Mormon. While I believe that God can lead her to the Truth, I don’t think it’s going to happen. It’s really discouraging to me.
The other day I went to a Dare2Share conference. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Dare2Share is an organization that goes out to various cities to equip youth to share their faith with their friends. On Friday night of the conference, two of the people in the youth group I went with accepted Christ. It was awesome! I hadn’t even thought about those girls and their salvation.
I was reading a couple chapters in Blue Like Jazz the other day. Donald Miller talks about how these two different girls finally became Christians. He talked about their hangups with Christianity. They were basically the types of people that you would probably say would never become Christians. They did become Christians though!
This coming week I’m going to Mexico on a missions trip. I’m in charge of food for the trip, which is a really huge job. There are 50 of us, so I have to make a list and buy for that many people for an entire week. Usually I’d go to Sam’s and spend between $800-1000 on food. That’s insane. Anyway, this year I had this awesome guy on my food team. He knows the owner of a grocery store, and this guy gave us chips, bread, fruit snacks, sandwich bags, juice, etc. It was so awesome! I think he’s also going to bring me more food today. Anyhow, this same guy who’s on the food team with me asked his church for donations just for food. We may end up not having to pay for anything, which would be totally great. That way we can spend more money on the projects for the people in Mexico.
Anyway, the point of that story is…I had given up before I had even tried anything. I didn’t bother contacting grocery store owners or anything, because I didn’t believe that they would give us anything.
Anyway, these 3 instances have renewed my hope. God can, and does, work in people’s lives. He pursues those we’ve given up on, and He provides when we least expect it.
Don’t lose faith.