God's Hand

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

I love how God works in and through people at the perfect time.  There are times that we have no way of explaining how perfect something happened except that it was God.

Recently, my sister tagged me in a post on Facebook that her nephew had posted looking for someone to recreate a poster he found.  See, he is a teacher and uses his desk area at school to be a witness for the Lord.  Add to that the fact that he was diagnosed with a very aggressive stage 4 Hodgkin Lympoma a few weeks ago, he really wanted something that would share with his students that he is not afraid.  This poster had Psalm 23:4 on it.  It was done with very crisp lines and he said he liked it because it made him feel like it was God saying that he had already set the plans for him. 

When my sister tagged me, her nephew, Johan, wasn’t sure who was being tagged.  It has been about 25 years since we’ve seen one another.  I took a look at it, knew I could not do the exact image for copyright reasons but said that I’d play with it and figure out something.  I ended up doing a design and he loved it even more.  He said that it was completely who he was, even down to the colors (which were not yet set in stone as I showed him screenshot of what I put together). 

Though all of this, Johan kept saying how God worked it out perfectly.  The canvas was set to be delivered to him today, which is when he was hoping to have it by as school started today for him.  Yet it arrived early, allowing him to get it hung in his classroom before students would arrive. 

Our God is amazing!  When we are in our darkest, most trial filled times, he is there.  He is with us, comforting us. 

Today I want you to think about the things in your life that could be nothing other than God working it all out.  I also ask you to be praying for Johan as he undergoes treatments.  He is only 35 and has young children.  They are positive that they will be able to treat it however this will certainly be a battle that will wear him down.