The Honda Fit represented the turn our life had taken. Walking alongside my husband through medical school in our 30s with two kids was not the original plan. I struggled to be thankful for much of anything; contentment seemed like a faraway land depicted in a novel. But God used this jalopy-of-a-car to teach me three truths about walking through disappointment.
First, we can trust God when we face the unexpected.
That car forced me to rely on God’s provision. Twice, I was stranded on the side of the road hundreds of miles from home. On a separate occasion, I was a victim of a hit-and-run. Numerous times we had to scrounge up funds for additional repairs, and I learned to navigate various modes of public transport across the city to my workplace with two kids and a stroller. But whether it was the roadside assistance company included with our car insurance or someone offering to help carry the stroller up the mountain of stairs when the train’s elevator was broken, I could rely on my heavenly Father to meet my needs.
The book of Ruth casts light onto the provision of God. Ruth may not have articulated that her life had warped into a bad dream, but she certainly wasn’t living a life any woman would have hoped for. She didn’t expect to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, as a young widow into a foreign land to live (Ruth 1:22).
While my life differed from Ruth’s in many ways, I did, like her, have to choose to trust the Lord to meet my needs in a life I never expected to have. Through this new season of life, God cultivated my trust in Him even when I didn’t fully understand where this road was leading. I learned to move forward in the life I was living, rather than the one I had expected.
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First, we can trust God when we face the unexpected.
That car forced me to rely on God’s provision. Twice, I was stranded on the side of the road hundreds of miles from home. On a separate occasion, I was a victim of a hit-and-run. Numerous times we had to scrounge up funds for additional repairs, and I learned to navigate various modes of public transport across the city to my workplace with two kids and a stroller. But whether it was the roadside assistance company included with our car insurance or someone offering to help carry the stroller up the mountain of stairs when the train’s elevator was broken, I could rely on my heavenly Father to meet my needs.
The book of Ruth casts light onto the provision of God. Ruth may not have articulated that her life had warped into a bad dream, but she certainly wasn’t living a life any woman would have hoped for. She didn’t expect to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi, as a young widow into a foreign land to live (Ruth 1:22).
While my life differed from Ruth’s in many ways, I did, like her, have to choose to trust the Lord to meet my needs in a life I never expected to have. Through this new season of life, God cultivated my trust in Him even when I didn’t fully understand where this road was leading. I learned to move forward in the life I was living, rather than the one I had expected.
Finish reading this article at The Round Farmhouse.