Asking Why?
A long time ago, I started seeing God do things in my life. It wasn’t long before I started asking God to do things, to handle things, to take care of things for me. And you know what… He did. When God wanted me to leave Calvary Baptist Church and my home town of Beaumont, Texas and move to Fort Worth to attend Southwestern Seminary I asked him for some specific things. One of the things was for my wife to find a job which she did in about a week. Another thing was to sell our house in Beaumont, He took care of it in less than a week without even involving a realtor. When you see God’s hand moving it is a powerful and encouraging thing.
Then there’s today… God has called our family to Nacogdoches, Texas to start a church. For the last three months we’ve been making all the last improvements to our house to make it a place we would sell to God. (See Colossians 3:23) And now we wait… Well not just waiting, we are starting to make bi-monthly trips to Nac. to begin the process of starting a church 3 1/2 hours away, but we’re waiting. We’re waiting for Karen to heal, for the house to sell, to find out what house we will live in, to find out what schools the kids will be attending, to see God’s hand moving in a powerful and encouraging way. The tempting thing is to ask, “Why?” Why me? Why are things going so slow, Why can’t we be there right now? Why don’t you move like you did the last time God? But “Why?” is always the wrong question. It’s a question that turns the focus on us and not on God. The right question is “What?” God what are you up too? What are you doing in my life with this delay? What are you doing in someone else’s life that makes this delay necessary? When we’re in the middle of waiting we never hear the answer to the “why?” question. Sometimes we have to wait for the answer to the “what?” question too? So… As soon as I hear what God is up to, I’ll let you know. Until then we are waiting patiently to see God’s hand moving us in that powerful and encouraging way that He does.
Revolution Church is a new church in Nacogdoches, Texas. We are now meeting for worship every Sunday night at 6pm at Tabu' Coffee (Come early and enjoy some of the best coffee in Nac.) Tabu' is located at 2111 North St. at the corner of North and College Streets in Nacogdoches. We are excited that God has provided us a very public and open venue for our church.