Noticing God’s work

I loved Amy’s post and I was going to post this as a reply, but it is too long, so I’m posting it here.

I’ve been trying to save a little every month for another car, because both of ours are over 250 thousand miles. But it would take a long time to save enough for a car. But, as I mentioned last post, we had about $2000 to spend, due to the totaling of Dad’s car hitting a deer, the money I’d saved and the unexpected check from Toccoa. So Dad took off with a limit of $2500, since I knew it was expecting a lot to find anything in one day for only $2000 that actually ran! When I got home from play practice at about 4:15, he was back from the hunt and had some possibles. We really wanted a Buick, since we’ve had such good luck with them for quite a while. There was one in Eau Claire, so we called and said we were coming back to look at it. Long story short – it had some problems, but Dad researched them and was pretty sure he could fix them. He wanted $2700, but we held out and he lowered it to $2600 and we took it. I figured that within $100 was close enough. Of course, we forgot about the tax, transfer fees, etc. But still, in this day and age to get a nice looking car that runs for under $3,000 isn’t bad.  On the way home, Dad bought the necessary part and it was easy to install, so he put it in today and it runs fine now. Unfortunately the windshield wiper motor doesn’t work, but if Dad can figure out how to get it out, he thinks the one from the white Buick will work.

My point of all this is that a week and a half ago, if you would have asked me if I thought I would buy a car without taking on a car payment in the next week, I would have said “no way. We only have $400 saved.” So, obviously all the credit goes to God. And that is why there is no reasonable way to live other than to put your complete trust in His ability and desire to provide all you need.  We really don’t need to know how it will work out. We just need to trust that it will, do our part, and let God handle the hard stuff (like money!)