God's Story in Our Lives
Chris was in full worry mode about the promise she had made to the apartment complex manager in a poor area of Oildale. Ever since God drastically changed her life four years ago, she had been drawn to minister to those living in poverty in this struggling community. She had believed God wanted to give a Christmas trees to each of the twenty apartments in a complex in that area. That’s what she told the apartment manager. And there she sat at her table, about to open her Bible Study material on Tuesday morning having collected only enough money for ten trees just four days before her friends were coming with trucks to deliver the promised trees. She and her husband had given all they could. They had asked all of their friends and yet she was still short half the money. Had she gotten it wrong, was it her own desire and not God’s? Did she make a promise she couldn’t keep? Which families would she disappoint? “Did I not hear your right, God?” she cried out, her stomach churning.
With a knot in her stomach, unable to think of a solution....
