Encouragement for the Week.

As many of you know the support raising has begun. Technically I don't have any official supporters yet but was surprised to talk to many people face to face this weekend who are most certainly interested in supporting the ministry. This past weekend I went home for a good friends wedding, which I am sure I could yap about the amazingness of marriage and its picture of Christ and the church but I won't. I was immediately discouraged when a seemingly close person to me said they didn't see it possible to raise this money. Earlier they supported my decision fully but now with a knowledge of exactly how much it was going to be, they lack any amount of faith to believe it possible. To this I began to wonder.......

If we deem the sun not there, does it still shine?
If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it not make a sound?
If we say where is love because we cannot see or physically touch it, do we say no one has it?
If I say there is no gravity but experience it every moment, do I not deny reality?
If we say there is no truth, are we not deeming what we say to be true?
And if you say there is no God because you do not see him, hear him, or believe in him, does that then mean that he does not exist or interact sovereignly in this world???
By no means. Just because I or we or us cannot see God's faithfulness to us and his plan for us doesn't mean He doesn't exist.

Later on in the weekend another friend said to me, quite plain and simple. "God works in such amazing ways. He will provide for you." This was also in the context of her knowing many other friends who have worked in campus ministry before. When we let our hearts muddy up situations things become much more complicated than they are. But it is as simple as God is good and He does work all things for those who love him. Christ died for us. How much more sacrifice and evidence do we need from a God who is perfect in every way and out of pure kindness stepped down to man to make us right with himself.

"And God is able to make all things abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work." --2 Corinthians 9:8