Pair O' Grafs' Paragraphs: Resting in God's Arms

Sue says:

There are times that, try as we might, things just don't turn out right. I have been reading a J.C. Pollack biography of Hudson Taylor. I appreciate that the biographer includes struggles that Taylor went through in his daily situations.

We had such a time recently when we noticed our debit cards were to expire.

Before we left the States last time, we had tried to get our bank to issue debit cards for a longer period of time so they wouldn't expire while we were overseas. The bank said it was cooperating, but after claiming to issue cards twice, we never saw them.

Now they were expiring while we were far away. We stopped putting our money in a bank here because the exchange rates were too unfavorable. We found that we get a better rate by depositing in the States and having our US bank exchange as we withdraw by debit card.

Now we had to ask a bank here to withdraw a large amount to keep us until our new cards could arrive. A man in Lae was shot recently while withdrawing after hours from a teller machine. We went to a well guarded bank during regular hours. Yes, they could help us. Phew, stocked up for a while.

We found out our son had received new cards for us in the States. The one reliable overnight carrier that has an office near us in Lae, though, doesn't any longer have many receiving sites in the US. It turned out there was one in a town ten miles away from our son.

The cards arrived in just one day more than the carrier claimed. Pretty normal.

Next we had to activate the cards by calling a toll free number in the US. By cell phone, somehow our call was intercepted by New Zealand. We got in a loop of operators and no one had the right info about how to get through to the toll free number.

OK, try Skype. Sometimes the Skype connection echoes and has long delays. People hang up because they don't realize we're on the line. We were worn out by this long process. We'd been asking God to please help us along the way, but now we were really past our own strength. We'd done all we could do. We couldn't make our connection work.

The connection was golden! It was faster than we'd ever had before. The operator sounded as though she were speaking from right beside us. Oh, joy. We are able to access our funds one again. God was our rescuer!

Jeff says the Old Testament word salvation can also be translated rescue. There are times each day I just need to rest and let God rescue me, just resting in His arms like a little baby does in the arms of an adult.