Ukraine

As I am in Ukraine for 2 weeks I would encourage you to check out that blog.  It is bethelukraine.blogspot.com  I'm blogging there daily.

Bats, Projectors, and Faith

What do I really trust God for? I find myself getting frustrated with my faith or lack there of in recent days. I find that in a well off nation it is easy to trust yourself and often provide for yourself. We become self sufficient and simply don't ask God, nor believe that God will provide. This morning I stood in front of a row of bats considering which 2 I should purchase to take with me to Ukraine. Now although this would only total $50 I thought, "this is a waste of money that someone out there can provide for." So I put back the bats, prayed for God to provide them and walked away. I'm trusting Him that He will provide these by this weekend. Now here's where faith really gets stretched. I also need to take a video projector with our team. We had resolved that this would just be purchased as a couple leads to video projectors fell through. As I walked out the store trusting God with the bats, it hit me, why don't I trust God with the projector? So I threw up a token prayer trusting God to provide the projector. But here's the catch. In my heart I believe God will provide the bats but not the projector. Why? Because it's too much money, too obscure, too tough for God. And I pondered in that moment, why do I have such weak faith for big things? This is something I'm asking God to grow and stretch in me. I believe he will. But it begins in simple things like bats and projectors.