Humility

It is sometimes difficult to distinquish true humility from a false pride. Usually we don't even know our own hearts until we are given a "life test". We (Billy and I) were living in this beautiful home and serving God at church and in the prisons. We were very happy to serve the Lord and others and life was great. Then one year after we took on this new mortgage, Billy was laid off from Fluor after 32 years of employment. Suddenly we were faced with financial concerns. I carefully reduced our budget and planned to stretch every savings that we had. Billy was dealing with feeling like he had failed as a provider. He knew the lie behind these thoughts so we determined to pray and fast and worship God together in our home every evening. One day Billy told me that he felt that God wanted us to give a certain amount of money to other unemployed people in our church. That struck fear in me but I knew that Billy had heard from God and that we needed to obey. Following that obedience, he was able to get a contract job from our long time friend Dick Wall's company. That job had a time limit and I was trying to stay faithfully away from the "what ifs". God was faithful to my "Moses like husband". One week after he left the contract job, he was back fulltime at Fluor and he was given the raise that he missed when he was laid off.

I am working to let my knowledge of God's faithfulness in the past encourage my faith for the future. With so many people unemployed and underemployed in this current time, I challenge you to look back and yes, even write down the details of how God provided for you in the past. He will never leave you or forsake you. If you are in a difficult situation, ask God if you need to give more to others, pray more for yourselves and friends and begin to say outloud. MY GOD IS FAITHFUL.

P.S. Thank you Dick and Betty Wall for being such generous givers to our family.