Jon Acuff has an article on his blog Stuff Christians Like entitled “Our $29,000 God. It talks about his project to raise $30,000 to build a kindergarten in Vietnam and his doubt leading up to asking his readers to help raise the money for the project. He was hopeful to be able to raise the $30,000 in about 6-weeks.
It look him 18-hours…
It helps that he is author of the fantastic book Stuff Christians Like
Although our story seems smaller, it reminded me that God is big enough.
When we raised the money for the new laptop that I am using for my writing, web-site development and podcast recording I was very nervous about doing so. I didn’t know how well it would go or how quickly it would happen. What I did know was that the new laptop was a tool that I needed to do what God brought me to Canada for.
God was bigger than my doubts and expectations and we raised the money in only a week! (You can read the “thank you” article on our family website)
To put it in perspective, I have 719 friends on Facebook, 472 followers on Twitter and e-mailed out to about 130 people. Both of those first figures are much higher now then they were earlier this year when we raised the money for the laptop. What we did have though was great quality friends, and God working on our behalf…
So what are you facing that God is too small for, or can’t help you with? Stop putting God in a box and trust Him, whatever your problems are, God is Bigger…
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Bill, I love the question at the end of this… because I definitely feel like I’ve been putting God in a box. For me, it’s mostly about needing to control things. While I *know* God is big enough, sometimes I’m just not sure he’s really going to look out for me. Or, I don’t trust Him to run things the way I want them run, even though I know in my head its best for me if He does (who am I to say how the universe should run!)
Great blog. I didn’t know you ran it until I saw it on your GTalk link tonight. You’ve got another e-mail subscriber.
Hi Fred,
Thanks for the comment. Considering how little I am in Gmail (I usually use Outlook to download the mail) it’s lucky for me that you saw the link…
Most of what I post on here is what I’m thinking about or struggling with at the time. Right now I am feeling very overwhelmed by life, so it was good for me to read Jon’s post, and remember what God’s already done for us.
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