God Makes A Way

Good Morning!

A few weeks ago I wrote to you about a disappointment. After visiting her eye doctor, Miss Norma learned that her vision would not ever be what it once was. Here is what I said then:

“But here is what I believe: when life issues us a challenge, it presents our great God with opportunity. I know my God can help us adjust to this new world … and in doing so, bring glory to His name. I also know my God is in the healing business. You see, the hole is healed but the electrical impulses that bring clarity to the sight are not there. My God who put the forces of nature together that produces the mighty bolts of lightning CAN restart electric impulses in a person’s eye … and He will if it brings glory to His name. Norma and I are praying in that direction. But until He does, we are going to hold fast to the faith that has carried us this far – for our God is faithful in all phases of life.”

Last Friday afternoon, my co-worker Ginger came up to my desk. “Why don’t you buy Miss Norma a Kindle?” Well, I had never really thought about a Kindle … didn’t really know what it was. But it sounded like a good idea for Norma to have while she waits between shifts at her post. So I bought one. I then called Norma to tell her what I had done. (It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission sometimes.) She then told me that she had seen a Kindle AND that she could read with a Kindle!!! Just another coincidence in the stream of life, I guess.

She got her Kindle yesterday afternoon. We are still in the discovery phase … I added a game and a copy of the NIV 2010. While I cooked supper, she played with her Kindle. I watched her. And I feel good. I am reminded of the lyrics from a Don Moen song:

God will make a way
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength
For each new day
He will make a way

We do not serve a God who does not care about those things that cause us heartache. And we do not serve a God that is powerless to make a way for us. Just imagine that a few years ago, God put into the mind of some scientist to make a device on which we could load books … and could adjust the font to where we could see what we could not see. And then He used a friend to nudge me … and I listened (for once) … and the result was joy.

Psalm 30:4-5 (New International Version, ©2011)
4 Sing the praises of the LORD, you his faithful people;
praise his holy name.
5 For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.


Agape’


Mr. Jim