because it will

(originally posted 4/21/08)

I think everyone knows by now that Doug & Jill, my longtime youth pastors and friends have accepted the District Youth Director position for the state of Oklahoma and are currently in the process of moving to Oklahoma City. They have accepted an offer on their house and so probably within a month or six weeks will be fully moved out of Ponca City. As you can imagine this is stressful. Not only is it stressful simply because they are leaving their home of 8 years and will be moving two hours from all of their close friends but they have the added stress of a new very busy career and 4 month old baby. I'm not even sure how they've made it this far but with God's help they have and they still have a long road ahead of them. They now have to find a home in Oklahoma City, pack their current home and move into their new home all before mid May when they again have to pack up their entire family and move to Turner Falls Youth Camp for 6 weeks to run the Assemblies of God youth camp's for the summer. WOW! Through all of this though the youngest member of the Everaard family has taught me an important lesson. Grayson Everaard, now just 4 months old, has taught me to "be still and know". How?...you might ask. Think about it, this little tiny man is under just as much of a time crunch as the rest of us and yet he is fully reliant on his mom and dad. He doesn't attempt to grow up too fast or rush through his days, he just takes things slow and allows Doug & Jill to tote him around wherever he needs to be. 

Lesson Learned? We should allow the same for ourselves with God. He knows how to pack up our homes and move us to another city (so to speak) and we don't have to worry about it. When it is time to go he will strap us into our car seats, make sure we have clean diapers and enough milk to drink and place us in our new home with everything we need to survive. Gray isn't worried. He's not stressed out. He hasn't attempted to learn how to make his own bottles and change his own diapers just so that Doug and Jill won't have to worry about doing it...NO! Despite the chaos around him and all the things on Doug and Jill's to-do list Gray simply is who he is and does what he can do. Why do we do the opposite with God? Why do we attempt to "change our own diapers" when we aren't ready for that? Do we think God has forgotten how to or that he won't remember we need a dry diaper? Do we think if we don't feed ourselves that God will just let us starve? Are we afraid that if we don't pack up boxes and put them in the moving truck that God won't use us anymore? Would Doug and Jill do these things to Gray? NEVER! They wouldn't leave him in Ponca City if he refused to pack up his own room...that's absurd. Try and apply this principal to your own life. I know I will. God knows what we can handle and what we can't and he will never ask us to accomplish more then he knows we are capable of. We should just lay back, take our bottles and trust that everything will work out...because IT WILL!!