Applying What you Learn

My husband, Michael, and I had a great opportunity this week to apply what we had learned in Sunday School.  We have been discussing God's will for our lives and though we have found much on the subject to debate about, you can't really argue with 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, which says, "Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus".  However, it does fall into the "easier said than done" category.  It was time to take it out of the classroom and put our faith into action. 

So what was this grand opportunity we had placed in front of us?  Camping.  Yes, that crazy thing people do, where they actually pay to live below their means. Crazy as it may be, we were all in.  We previously bought a piece of property and Michael was going to be spending quite a bit of time there, so we decided to haul the fifth wheel out there and set up home.  Everything was going quite well until we plugged in to power.  Nothing.

There are a couple of buildings on the property and Michael had the power turned on to them months ago.  He had even used the power previously, so he was at a loss as to why it wasn't coming on.  He tried all he knew to do.  By this time it was getting late, and frustration was starting to set in with the setting of the sun.  This is when the scripture from that morning came to mind,  "I know I am supposed to be thankful, but...".  Sometimes it is hard to see.

Michael decided to call the power company and report the outage.  Within a few minutes we received a call back.  It turns out they knew about the outage (caused by a storm a month ago) but hadn't bothered to fix it because they didn't think anyone was using the property.  Oops!  They sent a crew out right away and within an hour or two we had power!

The moral is that if we hadn't gone camping and discovered the power outage, we would still be paying for power that wasn't even on!  We learned that prayer matters and though the power being out didn't seem like something to rejoice in or be thankful for at the time, it was.  A blessing in disguise.  Then there is the story about the lost keys...but that will have to be for another time.