For those of you that don't know, I am very involved with something that a few people started this year called community gardening. We are doing this to build relationships with people that are working along side of us and to do the same with the people we will be giving the produce to. Anyways, we have four gardens. Two of which have a consistent water source and two of which that do not. The two that have that water source are looking great; I can't say the same about the other two. When we first planted these gardens we were getting great amounts of rain and everything was looking fantastic. Then for about two weeks we didn't get a drop of rain. The sun was shining bright, the temperature was rising, and the plants that weren't getting watered weren't looking too hot.
After I saw how bad it was, I started praying a lot for rain because we needed it bad. Day after day I would pray for rain, and it looked like it was going to but then the clouds cleared and it was sunny for the rest of the day. I started getting more and more frustrated at the fact that we were relying on God for rain and He wasn't sending any our way. Throughout this whole process I have been reading through the book of Luke, and Luke 8:25 stuck out to me. Where is your faith? My faith was dwindling because God wasn't working the way that I wanted Him to. Thankfully He sent us some rain yesterday afternoon, and I'm sure that it helped out all of our gardens a lot. But I've been thinking about how I was handling this whole situation, and I've really been thinking, "Is my faith really that circumstantial?" Am I so selfish that if God doesn't do what I want Him to, that I'll start doubting His ability to do something?
There are two things that I have learned from all of this:
1. My faithfulness is NOTHING compared to God's faithfulness. If you look throughout Scripture, every promise that God makes He keeps. And I am so thankful for that because if He didn't who knows where I would be right now.
2. God knows what He is doing. One of my all time favorite verses is Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight." God is teaching me to trust Him with everything. I am 100% sure that He knows we need rain for these plants to survive and hopefully for this ministry to be successful, but we have to trust Him. Everything that happens is for His glory: whether this attempt to grow food and give it away succeeds or fails, it is all part of His plan.
If you want to know more about these community gardens and are willing to help out shoot me an email at camp_hand@yahoo.com and I'll let you know when we are going to do some work.
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