Yesterday\u2018s devotion was about going through hardships and being attacked. The challenge that it is to get through moments like that. It truly blows me away how God uses those moments to build us. A week or so ago, we talked about a video that was sent to me by one of our veterans. The narrator in the video was talking about praying to God for strength. And God answered his prayers by sending him difficulties to make him stronger. So true! I want to add to this. I want to add another way that God does things to help us get through tough times. Help us get through difficulties. To keep us moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Months ago, I was wrapping up work one day at the office and I got a phone call from an unknown number. I didn\u2019t answer it. As I don\u2019t answer most phone calls that I don\u2019t know who the number belongs to. The caller left a voicemail saying that he didn\u2019t want to leave me his name, but that he was somebody from my past. And that definitely caught my attention. So I called him. Ended up that he was a former student of mine. A kid that could\u2019ve been a good basketball player. But, he chose to not stay in school. And quit before he graduated. I remember him. And I thought it was so unfortunate for him to do that. I never wanted to see any of my students quit school. But now let\u2019s just say at this point, his phone call humbled me. It was pretty amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parker was calling me to tell me thank you for pouring into him years ago. To tell me thank you for caring more about him more than he did for himself at that time. And he wanted to apologize to me for his decisions. Holy cow! Talk about humbling. That was decades ago. He quit school in 1998. And he still wanted to let me know this many years later that he appreciated me. I like to call moments like these \u201cGod Winks\u201c. They are moments like these \u201cBut God Moments\u201d that can help you move forward. And that\u2019s exactly what his call did. I don\u2019t do what I do to receive phone calls like this. I don\u2019t do what I do to get recognition for anything. I don\u2019t do what I do to have somebody reach out to me. I\u2019m simply trying to serve God. I say all that to say this, and I told Parker this as well, calls like this are God\u2019s way of saying stay the course. It\u2019s God\u2018s way of letting us know he\u2019s there. Parker was God\u2019s tool for helping me stay focused. And that is awesome my friends. So today, stay the course. Keep moving forward. Stay focused knowing that God has you. God has us all. He always has. He always will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday\u2018s devotion was about going through hardships and being attacked. The challenge that it is to get through moments like that. It truly blows me away how God uses those moments to build us. A week or so ago, we talked about a video that was sent to me by one of our veterans. The … <\/p>\n