CMDA Resident Life Facebook Posting, January 2, 2013:
Matthew 6:25-26--Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Happy New Year!! I hope it’s been a good start so far! A funny thing happened to me this week. God provided something that was little. Something He really didn’t have to. Contacts. Like the kind I wear in my eyes. Let me explain.
A few weeks ago, I realized I was running low on contacts and would need a new prescription before ordering more. I had just signed up for the Vision plan on my insurance during open enrollment this fall, specifically to get the contacts covered as a benefit. I made an appointment, went to the optometrist, and left with a prescription. For glasses. They couldn’t fit me for contacts because my plan didn’t kick in until January 1. And I had one pair of contacts left!! So naturally, I panicked, thinking, “I better not have to wear my glasses...” (which I rarely ever wear!). I had a little bit of a tantrum, never even thinking to ask God to provide them for me. I figured I could stretch my new pair to the new year, had an appointment set up, and thought I was good to go. But if they had to order them...if I couldn’t get them before I leave for a month-long overseas elective...I’d have to resort to glasses. And I didn’t like that option!
I came home halfway across the US for holiday vacation, opened my bathroom cabinet, and found two boxes of contacts just sitting there, waiting for me to be surprised by them. Immediately I laughed and thought God must be laughing too. Somehow, in His sovereignty, He had me keep two whole boxes--a 3 month supply of contacts--at home. I put them there--more than a year ago--and had forgotten all about them, but my God hadn’t!! It was such a little lesson to me that God cares for the small stuff I forget to pray about because, well, it’s small stuff. And how much more will he take care of the BIG stuff--relationships, fellowship applications/interviewing/matching, family, hopes/questions/fears/doubts about the future, etc.
As we face a new calendar year, I hope you’ll remember with me that our Father loves us, will provide and take care of us, and He can be trusted with all our worries. No matter how big or small they may be!
Philippians 4:19--And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Insight from Sarah Coors, National Resident Council Leader
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