"Dios cumple sus promesas" . In English, that's, "God keeps his promises". In His grace, God reminded us of some important promises this past week. We had a time of amazing ups and discouraging downs in the last couple of weeks. After speaking with the bank back in January, we were under the impression that they would accept a short sale on our house and help us out with some kind of debt forgiveness program. So, a couple of weeks ago we found an amazing realtor, Cathy, to begin the process of completing a short sale on our home. It was a beautiful thing to sit down with a realtor and hold hands a pray before even thinking about beginning business. We knew God was in this! We signed a contract to put our house on the market on a Tuesday. On Thursday, Cathy called us with an offer on our home. Not only did they offer our asking price, but they offered $4,000 more! Of course we accepted. Then came the down. On Friday, we got a call that essentially the bank would not forgive one cent of the amount left on the mortgage after the sale of our home. We were going to owe a considerable amount of money to them. This roadblock seemed insurmountable. I wish I could tell you that we took it in stride and trusted God to work in a situation that we had already witnessed Him working in, but our human doubt overtook us. Questions reared such as, "Are we even going to be able to go to Guatemala?" "Why us, when all we want to do is serve?" Etc. Etc. It was ugly. God , in His mercy, took us right where we needed to be on the Saturday night in the midst of our struggle. He took us to MIRA church for a second anniversary service. This is a Spanish congregation that meets in the North Shore Church building. Maria, their pastora, has been so kind and encouraging to us, even teaching us Spanish. I am ashamed to say that we headed to MIRA church last Saturday night out of obligation. We were a pretty pathetic pair. MIRA Church, as always, welcomed us with love and warmth and ushered us right to the front row of their worship service. They were in the midst of singing, and we easily recognized the tune of one of our favorite praise songs, even if all the words were in Spanish. The Holy Spirit immediately took us back to a hotel conference room in Miami when He first placed a call on our lives to go to Guatemala. The tears immediately started flowing along with God's grace, mercy, and healing. The theme for the service, was "Dios cumple sus promseas". Maria reminded us in her testimony that God placed a call on our lives and that He would see it through to completion. We still don't know how our house situation is going to be resolved, but we have peace in the waiting. We wait, and we trust, because Dios cumple sus promesas. Yes, God does keep His promises. Every time. Without Fail.
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