“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, ‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God’” (Luke 18:18-19).
My prayer was that I would be saved from the humility of having to seek help from my mother. I feared having to make things right and admit that I was failing at my life. I judged in my mind that God was good if He did what I wanted. I believed that God should serve me in this minor thing. Never mind that I did not even really believe in Him and loudly disdained anyone that tried to follow His ways. The phone rang and rang. Finally, I heard the phone pick up and then the voice of my mother. My heart sank but I knew that I had to ask before fear overwhelmed me. Worst case scenario she would say no and I would have to go find a plan b. I laid out my situation, of course I did not share my waste of resources. With hardly a pause she said I could come home, she just needed 48 hours to retrieve my old bed from my grandmother’s cabin where it was being stored. I had not really thought much of it at the time. But that required her to drive about 3 hours into the country, load up the bed and drive 3 hours back. Then she had it all set up for me when I arrived two days later. While initially I discounted the prayer since it did not happen my way, I ultimately realized that God is good. You see I needed to restore my relationship with my mother. God knew that. He orchestrated events so that they happened for my ultimate benefit. That one phone call set in motion a series of events that let me to have a relationship with Him, have a healthy relationship with my family and oh so much more. God is good because He will do things beyond what we think we want.
