Trusting in God
It still amazes me how precise God is in what He does. This summer I had the opportunity to lead weekly meetings with two of our girls, Raven and Becky. We regularly checked in on how their jobs and personal lives were doing, but most importantly of all, we always spent time looking at God’s word. The topic chosen for the summer was decided before we met these girls, but it could not have been more perfect. Week after week we looked at David’s life, and week after week the girls learned about a character that had been chosen by God and yet had gone through persecution, family problems, failures, and difficult battles, just like they do. One week, as we looked at how small David was in comparison to Goliath, Raven shared how much she wanted, but couldn’t, leave a relationship because of a lack of any other place to live. Another week, while studying David’s family, Becky talked about how her mother traded her for drugs at a very young age.
During this summer Becky suddenly found herself without a place to live. She had been staying at a very unstable place and after an incident where potentially gang members set fire to the house it was no longer safe for her to live in it, so she moved out without anywhere else to go.
In the midst of all this, the girls pointed out to me during every meeting that the verses I read seemed as if they were written just for them, and every meeting, I could point them to the God in which David’s trust was set on.
It still amazes me how precise God is in what He does. This summer I had the opportunity to lead weekly meetings with two of our girls, Raven and Becky. We regularly checked in on how their jobs and personal lives were doing, but most importantly of all, we always spent time looking at God’s word. The topic chosen for the summer was decided before we met these girls, but it could not have been more perfect. Week after week we looked at David’s life, and week after week the girls learned about a character that had been chosen by God and yet had gone through persecution, family problems, failures, and difficult battles, just like they do. One week, as we looked at how small David was in comparison to Goliath, Raven shared how much she wanted, but couldn’t, leave a relationship because of a lack of any other place to live. Another week, while studying David’s family, Becky talked about how her mother traded her for drugs at a very young age.
During this summer Becky suddenly found herself without a place to live. She had been staying at a very unstable place and after an incident where potentially gang members set fire to the house it was no longer safe for her to live in it, so she moved out without anywhere else to go.
In the midst of all this, the girls pointed out to me during every meeting that the verses I read seemed as if they were written just for them, and every meeting, I could point them to the God in which David’s trust was set on.