God Is Faithful

This blog post is a day later than usual. Yesterday was a very busy day that provided a personal experience I want to share. I work from home for the Greater Chicago Pest Management Alliance. We have three training seminars each year and yesterday was the first morning seminar this year. I run the registration desk for them so they send Uber to get me there and back home. They were predicting up to nine inches of snow so I arranged to go out through my garage at five am to be sure to get there by seven and to cut down on the distance outside with my walker and for the driver to carry my box of materials. Fortunately we did not get nearly that much snow, but for some reason the first two drivers assigned to me cancelled. By the time the third driver arrived, I was concentrating on finally getting in the car for the ride and forgot to use the remote in my pocket to close my garage door.

I called a friend who has a key to my place and he came over to close the door for me. The seminar was great. When the driver got me back home my remote would not open the garage door. When the inside switch was used to put it down it had inadvertently stuck. The cane I use to push off to get in my door was in the garage. The driver unlocked the front door for me and I got my walker and myself up the two smaller steps but when I tried to step up into the door my knees buckled. After two tries I knew I would not make it without my cane. I asked the driver to move my walker and place a captain chair with arms in the doorway so I could turn and sit then pull my legs in. It only took him fifteen seconds, but it was the longest fifteen seconds of my life standing on knees that had already buckled several times and with nothing to hold onto except my Lord.   

Safe inside, I praised God and thought of the words of a song on YouTube by Jeff and Sheri Easter. “I’ve stood on the bank of a wide raging river trusting that I’d get across. I’ve made my way through some valleys and desserts believing I’d never get lost. I’ve been at the foot of what seemed like Mt. Everest knowing I’d have strength for the climb. ‘Cause through every trial, test and temptation one thing is sure every time. Over and over again and again God is faithful. Over and over again and again through it all He’s made me able to stand and survive, to come out alive when it sure looked like I couldn’t win. Jesus is with me so I’ll claim the victory over and over again.”

Whatever you are facing right now, what God has done for me – He will do for you over and over again!