Why God's Plan is Better

 As many of you know, I have a stress fracture in my hip and it has kept me from doing anything super active since December. That’s right, I have not played ultimate in 6 months!! It stinks. Throughout the whole spring semester, I was praying “God, I don’t care if I’m injured the rest of this semester. Take away my legs for now, but I don’t want to be held back physically when I go to Honduras. Please, heal me by then.” Well, he didn’t. There were many times that I found myself asking why, but the beauty of God’s plan is that you don’t have to know what it is in order for him to carry it out.

Last week we were doing a lot of construction, but I couldn’t help because of my injury. I love the physical labor aspect of missions, so this was very hard for me. It was no fun having to watch other guys go to work with the pickaxe (which is my favorite tool) and not be able to help them. The week was not a drag by any means, though. I got to spend a lot of time with the local kids just hanging with them and striving to show them God’s love.

On the last day, all the kids got to draw a picture for one of the missionaries of their choosing and they got up one by one and presented their picture to whomever they chose. There were a couple kids that I was close to and guessed that they were going to give me theirs, but I ended up getting nine in total! There were nine kids that God used me to reach, nine kids that God used my injury to reach (most of whom I had no idea I had an impact on!).

Please do not take this as me bragging or trying to bring glory to myself at all. The point of me writing all this is to show that God has a plan, and it is good. Had I not been injured, I would’ve been working on construction and would not have been paying much attention to the kiddos, and as a result God would not have used me to reach the kids in the same degree. This is why God’s plan is better – because he knows what must happen in our lives in order for the most glory to be brought to him. Who are we, the creation, to question him, the creator?

A picture of the drawings I received! God is working even when we don't know it.