God is Faithful

I'm will try to put in words what a blessing it was for me that I was asked to go to Fort Yukon a few weeks back! One of the biggest reasons for the blessing is that I met Ron & Rebecca Starr. My pastor another family and I went to help finish work on their home. The house was a cabin built over thirty years ago and later the Starr’s built a house on top of that cabin and the cabin started to sink. The house needed to be jacked up, the old cabin removed and the downstairs area needed to be framed, floored, dry-walled, wired, etc., etc. We were the last crew in so we dry-walled, wired and basically tied up any loose ends.

I was so blessed to be given an opportunity to witness first hand the gospel truths being lived out due to the Starr's faithfulness to God. The Starr’s told us how the villagers weren’t very receptive to the Gospel and how God opened another door. They opened a Christian school and the locals started sending their children to it! God works in ways we don't always see, the adults were rejecting the gopel however their kids were going to hear it and Gods ways daily! God is Good (Mat. 5:15)! Anyway we came thirty years later and had the privilage of seeing a wonderful Church made up mostly of those kids and their children and their children’s children and like the song says…

“Boundless as the universe around me

Reaching to the farthest soul away…

Isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,

O, Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful! Wonderful it is to me.”

A blessing on a more personal level was that God used this occasion to teach me to trust in Him for every detail because He is near and He is Faithful (Mat. 6:27-34)! My children asked me very specifically to bring them home a “surprise” and they were all looking me dead in the eye telling me “don’t forget daddy” and I promised them “I won’t forget, I’ll bring you a surprise back from Fort Yukon” as I was walking out the door.

We arrived Monday evening and started work Tuesday morning we worked until Friday afternoon and after that we had to get on a small plane and head back to Fairbanks. Thursday night it occurred to me that I hadn’t gotten the “surprise” and there really wasn't any stores in this village that you could get something like that. I prayed about it and I asked God to provide me with something for the kids, it didn’t matter what, it could be whatever, but I couldn’t come back empty handed! I also knew in the back of my mind that God was going to have to do it rather fast because I was leaving the next day. I also want to make it clear I wasn’t doing this to test God because that is foolish. Friday morning came and went and I had forgoten about the surprises for the kids but as I was literally getting ready to walk out of the Starr’s home, Mrs. Starr asked me and my pastor (Wes) to hold on. Mrs. Starr came into the kitchen and placed this box on the table and it is full of children’s toys! Then she tells us pick out whatever you think you kids will like and that she had them around for kids to give to children an ice breaker so to speak. I explained to Mrs. Starr and my pastor how God had just answered my prayer the night before and we were just thankful to God that we can go to Him but we can through Jesus Christ (John 3:16)!

And more thing: I lost my phone card while I was there. My wife and I have had this card for four or five years, and no, it has no sentimental value it’s just a stupid phone card but she keeps it in her purse for whatever reason and I asked her for it because I didn’t know the phone number on it. I do remember the code number, but not the 1-800. My wife assured me that I would lose the card, and yep, she was right. Hate it when that happens! So I lost the card almost as soon as I got there! I asked God to help me find it because I needed it (and I didn’t want to hear my wife tell me “I told you so”) but I never did find that card. I was back a little over a week and I get this card in the mail from the Starr’s, a wonderful card that she had made with our pictures on it telling us thank you for coming there and helping out. But there was something else in the envelope so I turned it over and out pops my phone card and another note telling me she found it under my bed.

That might seem small time but while I was there I listened to so many amazing stories of how God had supernaturally provided for the Starr’s through out there life, every night I went to bed thinking about how my faith was so weak and how much I wanted to trust God and rely on Him like they did. God cares enough about us to show His children that He is here and He is personal and we can ask Him anything according to His will because He cares about us and He want's us to trust Him - Amen!
B. Fox

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.(1 Cor. 1:8-9)