May 31 – “Yesterday, today and tomorrow”

Today was yet another Seaside day of the church gathering together.  Not very many of our core group was there.  But there was one family of visitors that took up two and a half rows of the middle section.  They were all on vacation together from Oklahoma staying at a few of the condos in the West End.  Another couple was there from Boerne, Texas.  Nothing all that unusual about either case.  I mentioned during the service that we had been asked to cut down all the weeds that have grown up on one side of our property and to spread out the remaining piles of dirt.  I said Chris and I were planning to come down and work for awhile in the morning to do what we could.  Before we left one of the guys in the family said that he and his wife and maybe several others in the family were interested in coming over to help in the morning.  He said they were going to call the Chamber of Commerce in the morning to look for a place to volunteer for a day or so during their vacation.  What we needed seemed to fit the bill.  And he felt like it showed God was at work and he wanted to get in on it.  What a way to spend your vacation.   I had a phone call right after church from the owner of the real estate office across the street.  She and I went to high school together.  She wanted to see if we could work together to keep people from dumping trash right at the entrance to Jamaica Beach.  She's going to have some carpenters she knows build a trash bin for us on a different part of our property.  Then we can both use it, and it will eliminate the temptation for drivers passing by to test their basketball skills.  While we were talking a guy from Seaside came out and said he was planning to be there in the morning with a lawn mower.  He had several jobs in mind that he was going to work on.   Before I left that other couple talked to me a long time as well.  The man said he felt an almost overwhelming need to say something to me.  I told him to go ahead.  He said something along the lines of, "God is the God of yesterday, today and tomorrow.  What he did yesterday he can do again today and tomorrow.  He's got plans for Seaside, and he will see to it that your needs are taken care of.  Even to the point of people driving by in cars pulling in to the parking lot and giving us money or offering to help in whatever ways we needed them to."    God is always at work around us.  We just have to open our eyes.   Hebrews 13:7-8 says, "Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."   Father, help me to expect you do what you say you will do.  That's the only way I'll be able to see it.  Amen.