Lindsey and I aren't strangers to asking God for big things- and we're not strangers to being amazed by how He answers us, either. Still, occasionally, we take the wrong turn and start asking Him things because we want to have impressive testimonies. And this is what happened to me during our Operation Christmas Child project.
We felt His call earlier this year to pray for 100 shoeboxes to send off for the Operation Christmas Child program that goes through Samaritan's Purse. Each box is filled with supplies- toys, hygiene items, candy and school supplies- for children in need all around the world who don't know of the love of Christ. Last year we prayed for 45 boxes and He supplied us with 46- how's that for beyond what we could ask or think?
Still, there's a big difference between 45 and 100 boxes, namely the amount of supplies that we needed and the shipping money for all of them, which totalled $700, but also the boxes themselves and wrapping paper. We were starting from scratch, and the task was enormously daunting- but not for Him.
There are 101 shoeboxes sitting in my dining room right now.
Not until we had counted and recounted and recounted did we actually believe it, but He did the exact same thing that He did for us last year, just on a bigger scale.
"...Ye have not, because ye ask not." James 4:2
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