God Is In Control

God is in control!

One day while in Rwanda I got an email from Barry with the subject line, “God is in control”.  I braced myself!  “OK,” I thought.  “Let me prepare for this bad news.”

But what followed was really some very good news; someone had given a very generous gift to EAFC.  That email became the seeds for my rethinking how I view God and what the Bible really does say about how He delights to give good gifts to His children.  He only disciplines us for our good.  All His gifts are ultimately for my benefit, whether at the time I perceive them as good or hard.

Shocolat was the restaurant we went to after first arriving in Kigali.  Its location had changed since we were in Kigali before.  I liked the other one better but the food was as exceptional here as the other location.  The background in the picture is interesting however.  It's made of African fabrics arranged as though they are books in a book shelf. Later that day I asked Addy and Jean Paul what they would have expected if they’d read an email with such a subject line and both confessed that their reaction would have been similar to mine.  (Others we asked, however, seemed not to necessarily think that way though).  But this exercise led the three of us to look at events in our day in the light of God’s control.  Jean Paul particularly repeated the phrase over and over whether we encountered mud, rain, favors or struggles.  EAFC has a tagline,  “Leadership development with a unique approach.”  Maybe now we need a theme.  God is in contro l!