Walking in Faith Part 1

Walking with God is not always easy, but is often surprising, and frequently amusing.

Last week our church had a huge number of end of month accounts to be paid. Most of these related to the bookshop- we had purchased a lot of stock (mainly Bibles) in May and payment for these was due at the end of June. Last Wednesday I wrote $1500 of cheques with only $200 in the bank. I don't normally do that, because I am really conservative when it comes to money. I have rarely had a cheque dishonoured (then only due to a mistake in bookkeeping).

I felt that I should post the cheques and trust God to make up any shortfall. I had visions of having to ring up suppliers on Monday to tell them to delay cashing the cheques. Or maybe we could come up with the money from our own savings. I could imagine an offering big enough to cover the shortfall but our fortnightly pay is also due this week-- but maybe I could delay paying us until we get the GST refund from the Government which would come through early next week and would cover what was needed.

So while I had this calm exterior about it all, I was also trying to work out alternative plans to cover every possible scenario.

Well Sunday morning's offering covered the bills, so I was happy about that. Then Sunday night we received a cheque from somebody who had been unable to come in the morning. That covers our wages.

I seem to remember Jesus saying something about not worrying about what we need for our Father who feeds the birds and clothes the flowers knows how to look after us. I know that's true, but sometimes He likes to just test the trust, grow the amounts to believe for and crunch the deadlines!

I've never had any desire to do a bungee jump... daily life gives me enough thrills!