In His Time

In His time,

In His time,

He makes all things beautiful

In His time

Lord, please show me everyday

As you're teaching me your way

And I'll do just waht you say

In Your time.

(In His Time)

I heard this song just this past Sunday for the very first time. I smiled as I read the lyrics instead of singing them. Over the past few weeks God has truly been teaching me and Shane to be patient and wait for him.

As most people know, Kristina totaled her car about a month ago and with the car being 15 years old we didn't get a truck load of cash from the insurance company...haha. But, nonetheless we both began to pray seeking God's wisdom for the right car for our daughter. Our finances didn't allow us to squeeze out another payment and what we had in our hands was all we could afford.

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Day after day we searched for a car and came across a 1996 silver Chevrolet Camaro. The car was in good shape on the outside but the guts of the car needed a little work. The man replaced this part and that part. We patiently waited. We spent a few Saturdays looking at other cars but we both just felt that the Lord was leading us to this silver Camaro. We stood still and waited (a few times I stomped my feet though...lol). Wait, wait, wait and then we got the call. The man told us that the car was going to need more work than he thought and he just wanted us to understand that we needed to find another car.

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What?!?!? We both knew that God had this silver Camaro for her. We were both dumbfounded and just didn't understand. So, this past Saturday we woke up and went car shopping IN THE RAIN! Yeah...she'll remember that one for years to come...I'll make sure of that! heehee And as we searched every door that we tried to open seemed locked. We both sighed and I even cried at one point. Total frustration, I just didn't understand what God was trying to say.

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Then, we pull into this little "buy here/pay here" place and as we round the corner we see a 1995 silver Camaro. Shane gets out and looks at the car and I simply sit in the car in defiance. He comes back to the truck and says "Let's give it a test drive." I unwillingly get out of the truck and peek at the car while he filled out insurance information and got the keys. We piled in and cranked the car when all of a sudden a monsoon started! I thought we were test driving this car in the midst of Hurricane Gussy!

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"No, no, no" I protested "This is NOT the car for her. I feel uneasy in here."

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Shane just patiently kept driving. We ended up a friend's house who looked over the car for us and I stood in the background listening to every single word they said. The friend told us the car looked good, it looked real good. On the way back to the lot Shane began to ask me what I thought and I told him I didn't know what to do but I would support any decision he made.

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As we parked the car and walked into the office Shane began to talk to the owner. He explained our situation to her and how much money we had and low and behold a deal was made and after a few exchanges of money, paperwork and keys the car was ours.

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I do believe God chuckled at that one. I can just see my Father sitting in Heaven saying "How'd you like that one? Yeah, I pulled a fast one on you this time....hahahahahahahaha" (I guess in my mind God laughs like Santa Clause does...heehee).

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"Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT). I didn't see the whole scope of God's work in our lives these past few weeks. I was completely confused but yet we remained steadfast. Honestly, this was the first test of this type that Shane and I faced as a team since I was saved. I wavered a little here and there but in the end we were patient and in His time he made everything beautiful!