We're learning to trust God's provision for tomorrow, today. But such faith is hard for most of us. Our fears are real, our worries substantial. Tomorrow is a very real problem. So consider all the ways God has provided for you already. Look at what he has already done, and you can trust him for what he will do. You cannot see the future, but God can. And he is already providing for tomorrow, today. My story is proof that he is also writing your story.

A pastor from Birmingham, Alabama happened to be called to a fledgling little mission church in southwest Houston, when that area was the Frisco of the day. He came with an idea: a new thing called bus ministry. They happened to knock on my door one Saturday morning, and our family happened to be home. Had we not been, they would not have come back--they had too many doors to reach. My father happened to hear their invitation to ride their bus to church, and encouraged us to go; otherwise Mark and I would have refused the invitation.

I happened to be placed in the Sunday school class of Sharon Sewell, the pastor's wife; three weeks later she led me to Christ. How different my spiritual life would be if we had not answered that knock on that August Saturday morning.

My wife's father worked for IBM, and says the initials stand for "I've Been Moved." He happened to be transferred from Los Angeles to Houston. Janet decided to attend the University of Houston, but they happened to lose her transcript. She sent them again, and they happened to lose them again and none of her classes happened to be open. So she came home, determined to save enough money to return to California for school.

The next day, her father happened to sit down in the IBM break room next to Charlie Canton, a recent graduate of Houston Baptist University. He happened to mention his daughter's dilemma; Charlie encouraged him to have Janet consider HBU, and she did. She happened to meet one of my friends, who invited her to my church.

Her family had been Methodist, Presbyterian, and Christian Church to this point, and were already visiting a Christian Church near their home. But she came with her friend to my church, and the rest is history. How different my life would be if U of H had found Janet's transcript. There's even more to the "happenstances" of my experience with God's providence, as we'll see tomorrow. All of God there is, has been in each day. He still is.

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