The Importance Of Trust

Isaiah 26:4 - "Trust in the LORD forever, For in God the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock."

This verse was my theme verse for this missions trip. Everyone on the trip heard my testimony and they know that trust was something i struggled a lot with in the past couple years. The whole importance of trusting God did not really hit me until we were traveling the 9 hours (or however long it was) from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. I was eating an oatmeal cookie in my seat. (I always eat oatmeal cookies and nothing ever happens.) Well evidently, this cookie had treenuts in it. As most of you know, I'm allergic to treenuts. When I had realized this, I immediately got Kevin's attention and he gave me 1 benadryl. I guess my reaction was worse than i thought, because i passed out for about a minute. Both Mandi and Maddie Shover were trying to wake me up and they both almost started crying.

When i woke up from being passed out, my throat was swollen most of the way shut and I could barely breath. Maddie Shover got Kevin's attention again and he came up and sat beside me. He took my pulse and gave me 1 more benadryl and 2 prednisone. It took around 20 minutes for all that medicine to kick in. Then once it did, I could finally breath again. =)

The reason I told the above story was because when I couldn't breath, my first reaction was to panick and I got really scared that I was going to die. But then it hit me that worrying wasn't going to help. I began to trust God that he would take care of the situation and that He knew why I was suppossed to have an allergic reaction to nuts. Looking back, God used that scary moment to get ahold of me and to tell me that I needed to trust in Him for everything.

There were many other instances on the trip where not only I, but everyone had to trust in God. But I am so glad I went on this missions trip because I may have never learned that God can do anything. Dylann Hoover said in Costa Rica that God has the power to move mountains. God can do ANYTHING! We just have to put our mind to it and believe. And that was another thing that really got my attention.

Thank you Dylann Hoover, thank you Kevin for helping me stay alive :), and thank you God that you revealed yourself to me so I can trust you with ALL my life!!