I wrote some time back about an experience I had with trusting God. My family was having a really tight time of things financially and I had sat down with a stack of bills and my check book. I looked at the stack of bills and estimated what I needed to pay them all and it equaled almost exactly what I had in my checking account. There was only one problem with that, I had not written my tithe check yet. I wrestled for a few minutes with not writing the tithe check this month, but in the end I decided to trust that God knew what He was doing and figured one or two of my bills would have to ride until the next paycheck. When I finished writing out all the bills there was one envelope left at the bottom of the stack, when I opened the envelope it was a refund check for just over the amount that I was short for all my bills. I realized that God did know what He was doing and He came through one more time.
Since then God has come through multiple times. A little over a year ago now Julie lost her job with the school district she had been working for and we didn’t know how we were going to continue to make our house payment. I was also going to have to stop going to seminary (I was going part time as a commuter student) so we could cut expenses. God provided Julie with a job on campus at the seminary and housing on campus so we could move there and I could go to school full time. He even provided a renter for our house that wanted to move in the same month that we moved on campus. In fact our renter is right now trying to purchase our house which will relieve us from the financial burden of paying the difference between the rent we get and the mortgage payment. God not only came through, but He did so in a way that we only could have dreamed of. Never did I think that I would be able to quit my job and become a full time student again.
Through all of this Julie and I committed to remaining faithful to our tithe and more when we could swing it. Most recently God has really come through with our minivan. We have had an unusual amount of mechanical trouble with the minivan this summer. First the harmonic balancer came off the front of the engine ($400), then we needed brakes ($450), and just a couple of weeks ago the radiator blew up while we were in Citrus Heights ($800). Through all of this mechanical trouble we have not had to finance one cent, we have had just enough cash in our account to cover all the repairs each time. We were even able to pay my tuition and books this semester with cash instead of credit card. Now I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, the money just didn’t appear out of thin air, I worked full time this summer for the seminary and that allowed us to have just enough funds to provide for all the unusual expenses. The full time work was God’s way of providing for all of the things that would pop up this summer. God has continually proven Himself faithful through this season of our lives and I truly believe it is because Julie and I have been committed to being faithful to Him with our time, our family and our finances, we have been blessed.




