And God Shows Up

Today is March 24th and today God Showed up.    We went out today to do acts of obedience which started off with us all in the van driving around and following Gods direction, from take a left at the light to look for a white house with green trim.  At first like always you start to second guess if you are really hearing God or if you are just following a hunch, but then it happens.  You see that person or house or what ever it may be that God told you to look for and it all adds up to a point where you have no choice but follow through with what God told you to do. 

This was the case for Ben "buster" Smith and myself.  We found ourselves in Fred Meyer's sporting goods section looking for some one who at first was not there, because we really didn't know who we where looking for, all we knew was we needed to be there.  Then God gave me some more insight, He tells me that we need to look for "new life" and a woman.  So this told me that we should be looking for a woman with a newborn baby, and He told me that I needed to tell her that her husband cares.  Just as I finished telling Ben what God had told me Ben points to a woman behind me and says "like her".  So I turned around and I just knew that it indeed  was her  and I was at that moment of having no choice, I had to go tell her what God had said.  So in the most normal way we possibly can think of Ben and I told her that we where christians and we wanted to know if there was anything we could pray for.  I wish I could say that she then broke  down and confessed all her sins and became a follower of Christ, but I cant because she already was a Christian and told us that she had no prayer needs.  At this point I just wanted to leave it at that and call it a day, but I knew that I had to tell her the rest of the reason we had approached her.  So I told her God wanted us to let her know that her husband cares.  By this point to be honest I was wishing for some kind of reaction but there was non and she just stood there.  Not knowing what to do next and knowing we had done all God asked us to do we told her to have a good day and walked away.  

In many ways I could count this as a loss, but I know that for one Ben and I where used by God, and second I can't help but feel that she needed to hear what we told her even if she didn't realize  it at that moment.  No matter what the outcome was God was and is amazing because He showed up today and led Ben and I on a adventure.

Kyle Cook (cookboy)