Two nights ago at nearly midnight my wife woke me up to tell me the air conditioner was not working. Of course, my response was exactly what it should have been: “Of course the AC is not broken, it has just cycled off. Don’t borrow trouble, and let me go back to sleep!”
Of course, I was wrong and the AC was down, and after late night calls to my father and trekking outside to check the AC unit we believed the whole thing was shot. This would not be cheap! This would definitely cramp a lot of things (specifically our bank account).
We had some choices to make — 1) worry about it or 2) trust God to take care of it. Well of course we chose number two!!!!! BUT only after we had cycled through number one.
When I went back to bed to try and get some sleep God reminded of me what I have been trying to teach my children all their lives, what I have especially been teaching the teens at church the last few months, and what I have been “preaching” to anybody else who will listen – It is all HIS!!! I do not need to worry about any of it!!!
When we got up in the morning and started calling some people to get recommendations on men to fix the AC a man in our church said he recommended himself. I was shocked, because I did not know he did AC work.
First blessing — It was going to be less expensive, because he was not going to charge me for things I did not need or for labor that did not need to be done.
Second blessing — He was at our house an hour later (this may not seem like a big deal, but in the Georgia heat waiting on AC repair can sometimes take a few days, because of the numbers of people needing help).
Third blessing — When he checked the AC unit out it all boiled down to one small part that only cost $6.17. What could have been something that may have cost over a thousand dollars ended up costing only $6.17. At the very minimum, just to have a service man come from a regular place would have cost us $100 at least. This good man would not even let us pay for his time or the gas that he spent to get to our house or to go get the part. (there is even a humorous side to some of the things that happened while fixing the AC unit, but I will spare everyone involved the embarrassment)
All of that to say, why did we worry in the first place? God knew what was going on. He was in control.
Jeremiah 29:11 says “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an unexpected end.”
God knows the end. We may not, and most of the time we are not supposed to know the end. It is kind of like when we are trying to surprise our children. They may know something is coming, and they may want to know what it is, but they are not supposed to know until it happens. We may think the journey will be better if we know what the end is, but looking back on it we realize that the expectation of the unknown made the journey that much better.
