God and Cargo Trailers

Have you ever heard anyone say, "The devil is in the details."? I know I have. Anytime a Baptist church undertakes anything of significance (for some that is the color of carpet and others that is whether or not to relocate the whole church to a more centralized location) the discussion about the "details" always brings the disagreement and the hearty (but compassionate) discussion. In the last 12 years I've heard heated debate in Baptist churches about everything from water fountains and ice machines to firing the preacher and dissolving the church. What I've noticed is that the devil isn't so much in the details as he is in the people who are discussing the details. Let me tell you what I mean....

A few months ago a group of us from the church went to a disaster relief workers training and we got our certification to represent the Southern Baptist Convention and our church in the wake of a natural disaster. We saw one particular area of ministry that excited everyone who went. The particular unit we liked would require us to buy a jumping house, snowball machine, popcorn machine and some other things like that. Well....God was in the details. If you know anything about a Baptist church, you know that most endeavors require major discussion and votes and all of that in order to get anything rolling let alone accomplished. Well....before we left the training God had already given us a jumping house. We already had some of the other things I mentioned. Someone has pledged a snowball machine and popcorn popper. All we needed was the trailer to house all of the equipment (that which we already possessed and that which is coming). Well....God was in the details. A gentleman in the church purchased a trailer from another member of the church who allowed us to have it at cost. Now, we have the trailer, the jumping house, the other things, a popcorn popper and snowball machine and all of that has been given to the church without so much as announcement let alone a business meeting. Well....God is in the details.

Now let me tell you something. Some people would gripe and complain about that. Some people would say that a group in the church is trying to "take over" and "run" things. Some people would say "you can't do that without a business meeting." I can only imagine what SOME people would say about all that God has done. Well...God is in the details. What I would like to say to some people (if I were to get an opportunity to say anything to those people) would be this: God is in the details. If you'll just learn to pray and wait on Jesus, you might find out that God wants to supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory. God is a good God and worthy of our devotion! You know why? Well....He's in the details!