God Will Take Care of It

Hey everyone,
This blog popped into my head this morning as I was getting ready for school. I wanted to talk about what this phrase means to me: "God will take care of it." I use this phrase all the time, not only when talking about finances. I have written plenty on finances and how each month God provides exactly what we need (maybe not what we want, but always what we need). This time I want to talk about how God provides for us in way of taking care of problems that we think are big problems. Most of the time when we worry about some distant problem, after God has taken care of it, we don't remember that it was a problem we were worried about, and thus never thank Him for fixing it in His perfect way. I have two things that have been taken care of in the past months that I would like to remember and give thanks to God for. The first is Melody's birth. A few months ago, I began to go through the night when Kelsi's water would break--I assumed it would be at night for some reason. I kept going through the scenarios and thinking about how we would have to call a tuk tuk, and make sure someone was able to watch the girls, and the hospital was a little bit further than I was comfortable with... all these things that were my responsibility as the husband. I worried. All the things that could go wrong... you can lose a lot of sleep thinking about all the things that could go wrong, because there are a whole lot of things that could go wrong. I could stop breathing in the middle of this post... I could get hit by a car on the way home from school today... there are a lot of things that could go wrong on a daily basis, but in these cases I have the trust in God to know that He will maintain my breathing and protecting me from getting hit by a car. I even have the trust to say that if I got hit by a car that God would use that in some way in my life and I can trust Him in that, also. But with this whole birth thing, I was freaking out. I kept saying, "God will take care of it." As most of you know from reading the post about Melody's birth, God did take care of it. I do not find it a coincidence at all that Kelsi and I had a get away weekend at a hotel that was closer to the hospital, or that our daughters had baby sitters that night, or that Boo found his way to the hotel even with my terrible directions in Khmer, or that Melody was born almost a month premature and still had no complications other than low blood sugar, or that the delivery was only an hour long and Kelsi had no complications. I understand that we could have had a terrible birthing experience, but through this whole pregnancy, I have seen that God does take care of us, when we place our trust in Him. There have been times when things were difficult, and we placed our trust in Him, and He has shown Himself faithful. Now, the second thing that God took care of actually started in January, when I had to fly to America. I don't know how familiar you are with my position at BYKOTA House, but I am the School Administrator--which basically means that I handle all things English school related. Over the last year, I have created a rotation system to effectively teach our vastly different middle school class, and Kelsi and I were in the process of developing a system for the new Elementary/High School class. I am not trying to brag, I am just trying to convey that for me to up and leave for three weeks and immediately leave after Melody being born was not an easy thing for our school. I have written this before, and I will write it again. I am not too proud to admit that I am replaceable, and God has shown me on multiple occasions that I am not as important as I think I am. When I made the school calendar, I left about 220 school days, because I was planning to take off for a couple weeks when Melody was born. I did not, however, make room for my trip to America. I remember being so worried when I was making the school calendar about what we were going to do about school, and how Mark and Rhonda were going to handle all the BYKOTA Kids without us being there for school time. We talked about it at multiple team meetings. But God took care of it. We have had a team here for two months. We started having World Race teams come around November, I think. We had one come in January, and they completely took over school while I was gone. Kelsi supervised, but she said that they pretty much handled everything. When I got back from America, this team was given the choice to stay in Cambodia and work with us for another month, and they chose it! Even now as I type this, they are maintaining the school. You see what I mean. Six months ago, I was so worried about this time period, but I kept praying and knew that God would take care of it. Now seeing that He has, I want to stop and say "Thank You, Lord, for being faithful." In the Old Testament, God constantly reminded His people of what He had done for them. I think that we need the same thing. I would encourage everyone to take some time and remember all the things that God has done. Take time to remember all the things that God has taken care of... and then thank Him for it.
BecauseHeLives,
Micah.