I’m a faithful wife, I do what I can to make myself better. Read books, have intentional alone time with my husband, find what speaks to his heart to make his life better. I am a faithful mother. I spend time with my kids, get down on the floor and play, act silly and hopefully instill manners and a good sense of self worth in them. I’m faithful to my friends. I spend time, encourage, have fun and learn from them. I’m faithful to my church. I volunteer my time in a few different areas. Faithful to paying our tithes. These are all good things but, I want to talk about someone who is completely, selfishly, all out faithful beyond anything we can comprehend, God!
Mark and I have not had an easy road in our ten years together. We met, feel in love and its been a whirlwind ever since. I would not change anything because then we wouldn’t be where we are today. We have made mistakes, but God has been faithful. We have gotten ourselves into debt that we are digging ourselves out of but God has been faithful to us even in our mess. He has blessed us with many things. We have an older van that sadly wasn’t going to pass an etest so we couldn’t get our license sticker for this year. We took it to our mechanic who gave us sad news, it was going to cost us more then the van is worth to fix it. We had no choice but to get a new car. We knew the price of gas on a van plus payments was not an option for us right now. So we decided to go with a smaller car, much less on gas and reliable!
The hunt began and the stress level went up!!! In the end after spread sheets, looking at the high gloss brochures and several conversations, we narrowed it down to 2. On Saturday we knew it was the day we had to make a choice. After a lot of back and forth, being picky about EVERYTHING we had made a choice. To make this already long story shorter, God showed up on our behalf. We knew what our budget was and what we could afford. We also had month end on our side. The 2 sales guys we where dealing with where so kind and VERY helpful. In the end we went with the car with the lower amount. We had sat in the sales guys office and said there is NO way they will go below $100 biweekly,He already said that wouldn’t work. God intervened and we got it BELOW what we dreamed of! Financing was not an issue despite our poor choices in the past, again God moved that through!
In Nehemiah 1:5-6 msg ” I said “God, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, loyal to his covenant and FAITHFUL to those who love him and obey his commands…” God knew our hearts, we were getting something below our means, something smaller but reliable. I’m thankful that God is faithful even in our messes. He is faithful when we have a heart towards him that says God I have messed up, I have made mistakes and I will change my ways, please forgive me. The definition of faithful reads, ” Loyal, constant and steadfast” I’m thankful that as I abide in Gods presence, knowing that as I am faithful to him, He will be abundantly faithful to us.
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