The Lord is Good!

As many of you know, we’ll be moving in the near future. What you may not know is that we took a huge leap of faith when we decided to purchase the home in our new area. When we found out that D would be getting orders to a new location not too far from where we are now (about 2 1/2 hours away), we headed down there to look at the housing. It wasn’t exactly what we were expecting, but later, we did find a house that we really liked that was in our price range.

For those of you that are in the military, you know it can be a risky move to do anything without a hard copy of those orders in your hand. Well, we were faced with that decision. We didn’t do anything that day. We went home and prayed and talked about the situation. If we wanted to make an offer on the house, we were to come back down the next day. (The housing market down there is hot and good houses don’t stay on the market very long.) That morning, we still weren’t sure what to do…

We decided to head down there and give them our terms — see, we couldn’t close on the house until almost 2 months after we made the offer. We knew that if they accepted those terms, then we were doing the right thing. If not, then we would walk away knowing that it wasn’t the Lord’s will at that time. Well, they accepted! That was before Christmas.

That weekend, D had to go down and do the walk-through inspection (I was too ill to travel). Everything went well until they started to head home. Something “felt” funny with his truck. Well, over the next few days we experienced several things that really made me doubt our decision. D’s clutch went out on his truck, so we had to replace that which lead to a few other replacements. Then, his one tire went flat. After inspection of all his tires, we realized that there were cracks in all of his tires (manufacturing defect). That meant that we needed to replace all of his tires (not cheap considering he has large tires).

I started to really get concerned about closing costs and all the costs of purchasing a new home. How were we going to pay for all of this? I had budgeted a larger amount for the Christmas season as I knew we’d be traveling and expenses tend to be higher at the holidays. There was no way that I could have predicted this expense though.

Anyway, I decided to let it all go and just give it to God. There was nothing that I could do except cut back on expenses as much as possible. I gave all my doubts, worries, and fears to Him. Trusting that He would take care of us.

Now, back to the orders… We were suppose to get a hard copy of the orders at the beginning of January. February rolls around and we still didn’t have our orders. We can’t close on the house if we don’t have those orders. Once again, worry and doubt start to creep back into my thoughts. I decide once again to give it all to God.

Well, first, at the end of last week, we received a partial reimbursement for the tires from the tire manufacturer. The beginning of this week, we received a hard copy of the orders. Now, this morning, I went to pay the bills and found out that we had received our tax return. Between the tax return and the reimbursement, it’s enough to cover the bills that we had experienced. We’ll have enough to cover the bills and the closing costs on the house (as we close in 2 weeks).

I haven’t even had a chance to talk to D as I’m not able contact him during the day unless he calls me. The Lord is so good!

Munchkin and I have been talking about praising God in both the good and the bad. We have made a good effort to make this a meaningful part of our lives. It’s much easier for us to praise Him now than it was when things weren’t looking very good. But, we trusted in Him and He carried us through.