Not our timing

The news and upset of the past week has been the earthquake that hit Haiti. As soon as we hear the number "200,000 presumed dead" we jump start into action. Also as soon as we hear the amount of people hit by it's destruction we begin praying and we still move quickly to find a solution. But some things come about before there is even a hint of destruction...a simple plan to do good in the world.

Here at MACU we had planned food packaging for Haiti well in advance of this earthquake, just to help the hungry people of the nation. Then a week before this event happened we heard the devastating news that our brothers and sisters had been hit severely with this disaster. This changed our perspective on the whole packaging food for the hungry, this meant that in God's time we were unknowingly about to help in a huge way, that we never thought in the weeks prior. This was a big lesson to me because it showed me the perfection of God's timing, and not our own.

So many times I get caught up in my plan that I forget about God's, but the event that we put on in the perfect timing of the disaster brought me to a whole new outlook on "my plan." Simply, it doesn't work anywhere near how it could if I would just let God take the reigns. Haiti needed us more than we ever knew, but God knew why they needed us much more severely than we thought. 61,000 meals for Haiti.....in 6 hours, this means that we were pumping out a little over 1,016 meals per hour. The whole time I was serving in that meal line I thought "why don't I do this everyday?" It feels so good to help others even those who you may never know until the Lord returns.

A life in God's time is well spent, and I strive to let the Lord do what he must in my life in His time.

Peace.