Met with the realtor again. I am so stressed out by all this! While it didnt find any show-stoppers the building inspection on “mock todor” did pull out a bunch of little things. We’ve asked for everything to be fixed and now I have feelings of stress / panic while we wait on the seller to reject it all. I suppose my fear is that he’ll simply walk away or something. I dont know. Maybe this is delayed nerves from last week? Maybe the overt emotional state of my wife is what I have internally and it’s just now leaking out?
God has a huge sense of humour, He really does. Just when I am most tempted He brings along additional items to be obedient over. We (my wife and I) believe in the biblical practice of tithing to the church. That’s been in place since the start for us yet at the moment with the house buying I have all these thoughts of what we could do with the $$$’s if we didnt cut the check to the church for the next couple of months. A long time ago God told communicated a simple rule with giving, “if I / we dont give, he / she / they dont eat“. Right now, if we (the church) dont give our assistant pastor will be going hungry. So, the temptation is a simple choise: Wayne goes hungry or we buy new appliances for the new house. See how its suddenly less tempting when there’s a face and a name?
The extra obedience came along this weekend when 2 of our friends (who are local Intervarsity workers) asked us to join their support team. We love them dearly and once again, if folks dont give they wont eat. My income is committed for the time being but if wife’s new job comes through she will be able to help them. It seems hopeful too. Would God bring along someone who needs a regular amount roughly equal to a tithe from the job she interviewed at for no reason?