God Orders Our Stops As Well As Our Steps

Jonathan and I were talking last night about our whole situation and how frustrating things have been. Jonathan still does not have a job after four months of intense job searching. He applied for his limited license in Michigan about a month and a half ago and found out yesterday that he was rejected for it because he applied for the wrong one. Apparently, Michigan's licenses are screwed up and very different from Illinois'. So Jonathan now has to make some calls and go through the whole process all over again, which could take another couple months. I will be finished at my job the end of July, as they have hired a new person who begins July 24. Jonathan is not sure how much longer he will be needed on the job site he is at now doing construction. So, we are realizing that in a month, we could both be unemployed and without insurance. Yikes! But, as we talked, we realized that we don't have it bad, so to speak. We have our health, our family, friends, a roof over our heads, and a puppy who adores us. As Jonathan put it, we're just "uncomfortable" right now more than anything. It still is easy for us to get discouraged, though, and as Jonathan rolled over to finally go to sleep, I began to read my devotional for the day out of "Our Daily Bread". It was as if the passage had come straight from God's Hand. The author was talking about the two great fears of sailing at sea--a terrible wind or no wind at all. He wrote, "Sometimes life demands that we weather a storm. At other times it puts us to the test of tedium. We may feel stuck. What we want most is just out of reach. But whether we find ourselves in a crisis of circumstance or in a place where the spiritual wind has been taken out of our sails, we need to trust God for guidance. The Lord, who is sovereign over changing circumstances, will eventually guide us to our desired haven (Psalm 107:30)." I immediately roused Jonathan and read this to him. We both realized that while we are not experiencing a terrible storm, we are feeling stuck. Nothing is happening and there is absolutely not a darn thing we can do about it. But God is sovereign. The text ended with this short poem: "I will not fear the howling storms of doubt, Nor shudder when I feel I'm all alone; But I will trust my Savior as I shout: 'The Lord's my helper--He is on the throne!'". Amen.