God Knows…the Time & Pain
The woman on the other end of the line just kept talking. I was still processing. “It’s just that some of us feel that Pastor has over stayed his time……,” she continued. I heard myself ask, “Why do ya’ll feel this way?” Why in the world did I keep this conversation going? Why was it necessary for this woman to tell me by phone what others were feeling? How many others were there? When did I need to start packing?
I remember thanking her for the phone call, hanging up and falling on my knees. I cried out to “Abba”! Through my tears and the quietness of that time, I heard the Father say, “I know.” In the days that followed, heaven seemed silent. It didn’t get better. It got worse. I asked many times if HE really knew what was going on. Nothing. Silence. We didn’t stop praying. He purified us. We grew weary. We lived life. We had children. We continued to minister. People came to know Jesus. We took people into our home. We fed people. We prayed for people. We counseled. We married. We buried. We baptized. We ministered by faith, the power of the Word and sheer determination to finish well…we kept going.
Three years later, the time came. The moving truck pulled away from the curb and we stood looking at the church we had come to love. There was only One there to send us off. He knew. He knows. Don’t ever forget that.
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Diane Nix is the director and founder of Contagious Joy 4 Him, a network of encouragement to ministry wives around the globe. Her husband, Dr. Preston Nix, is professor of evangelism and evangelistic preaching at NOBTS. Serving in ministry together for 31 years, they have two biological daughters and two spiritual grown daughters. She is an author, speaker and blogger.
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Thanks for this today. It was much needed.