God showed up

What a day! Today was the designated day to help a member of our community paint her house. There are lots of unanswered questions regarding this person and one of the biggest is why she is painting the house alone without her husband's help and why she needed to ask others to help her when her husband is capable of helping. My friends and I were not facing this day with a good attitude but we decided it was what God wanted us to do and we knew we would at least have fun being together, if nothing else.

The day dawned with a bright and beautiful sun and I got my Saturday morning church work done in record time. I was actually pretty ticked at God because that meant He must have wanted me to paint. So, off we went to paint. We joined our friends at the home and it was suggested that we pray, so we did. The prayer of blessing on us as we worked together, the job, etc. was no sooner over when a couple walked up the driveway. Most of us had no idea who these people were, but one couple did recognize them. It was a couple who was neighbors with one of our friends and our friends had been inviting them to our group. They didn't feel comfortable coming to our group meetings on Sunday evening, but they felt comfortable enough to come paint with us. It was very clear, very quickly, that God was showing up in a big way and in a way that totally surprised us. We thought our job was to minister to a family whose house needed painting. But it turns out we were to minister to a couple He wanted us to bring into fellowship with Himself and us. Now, isn't God something?

I pray for both couples -- the one whose house we painted and the one who showed up to help. Thank God we did what He called us to do today. Just look at the opportunity and blessing we would have missed.