Post Trip

This is my first post since we've returned and I believe I am beginning to recover....slowly.  The trip was amazing. We had the opportunity to meet many people, see many sites, and go through towns and places that we will never go through again. I remember this one guy we met named Eric. We met Eric in the middle of nowhere town called Bakers, NV. We found the people in this small town to be very very rude! (We came up with our own name for Bakers, NV that will remain between our group).  To give you a picture of how small this town is there were 2 stores, one was closed and the other we went to so we could buy some food....that's it..literally.  We went to the front porch and stood there for about a minute because it was pouring down rain. Then Tony Zanca, one of the other riders, went inside and right when he did the lady just starts shaking her head no and says, "We aren't serving". We thought "ok, i'll just look around and buy something." She says," you need to leave". So we went back out on the porch, still pouring down rain, and she comes out and says we open back up at 2, you can't stand on the porch. Really?!?! The porch was a huge wrap around porch with 4 people on it and we can't stand here while it's raining! The entire town of Bakers could stand on the porch and we would still have room for more! As we were getting ready to leave, Eric pulled up on his bike soaking wet from the rain and started talking to the lady about buying some food. She told him the same story she told us and finally we went across the street and stood under the roof of the OTHER store...the ONLY other store. I started talking to Eric and he said he left from his back porch 6 weeks earlier by himself. All he had was a cart that he pulled behind his bike. He mentioned how last night he had no place to stay then out of the blue he sees this old abandoned house that he stayed in that kept him warm and dry. It was pretty incredible to hear his stories. He wasn't a believer and I shared our story with him.We talked for a little while longer and had the opportunity to give him some food and other things. After we left, it seemed like my excuses for why this ride was hard was nothing compared to Eric's. My conversation with Eric tested my faith and encouraged me to keep going even when I thought I had it rough. The reality is that we might have it bad sometimes but someone, somewhere is going through something more difficult. Here I am praying for the rain to stop so I won't be wet and Eric is asking for a place to stay because he's cold and wet and has no where to go...MAN I GOT IT GOOD!  One of the many applications I was able to pull from my trip is the reality of God's provision. When God's people walk by faith He supplies their needs. There were times when we were asking, "God, where are you, we would like to see you work". Sometimes we would ask "God where are you, we NEED ,....." and it seems right in our needs, or hardtime God says "I'm here, right in the middle of your need". God supplied our need through someone else. We would ask where's God and look around and find that He's been there the entire time ready to supply our need...

 

Principle: WHERE'S GOD?...THERE'S GOD.
Many times when we ask Him where He's at He's usually right there were we need Him.

Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply all your needs
according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.