The Sure Cure for Worry by Kent Crockett

Author:Kent Crockett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012120, REL012070, SEL021000, Trust in God—Christianity, Obedience—Religious aspects—Christianity, Worry—Religious aspects—Christianity
ISBN: 9781441261618
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

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God Speaks Through Others

Never confuse the will of the majority with the will of God.

—Chuck Colson

When I was in college, I often wondered how I would find my future wife. I had quit dating girls who did not have a relationship with God. One of my friends poked fun at me for not putting forth more effort in trying to find her. He mocked, “Crockett, do you think your wife is just going to call you on the phone and say, ‘Here I am’?”

I knew that only God knew where she was and only He could to bring us together, so I put my complete trust in Him to make it happen. As it turned out, my wife lived three hundred miles from where I went to college. Even if God had revealed to me the city where she lived, how would I find her if I traveled there? If God had told her that I was a college student on a large campus, how would she have found me?

Obviously, we could not find each other on our own. So how did we find each other? God arranged a divine appointment. Here is how it happened.

After my friend Blaine returned from working on summer staff at Glorieta Baptist Conference Center in New Mexico, I gave him a call to ask how his summer had gone. After we talked awhile, Blaine commented, “Kent, next summer you need to go work on staff at Glorieta.”

I had never been to that place and had no interest in going there, so I just continued our conversation without commenting on it. I did not realize that God had spoken through my friend and his suggestion would change my destiny!

When I returned to college that fall, the words Blaine had spoken kept coming to my mind, “Kent, next summer you need to go work on staff at Glorieta.” I could not get his words out of my head.

Why do I keep thinking about working on staff at a Baptist conference center in New Mexico? I wondered. I am not even a Baptist. It must be 900 miles from home. Why would I want to go there?

I finally decided to call the place and ask for an application. The person who answered the phone said, “I’ll be glad to send you a form. However, you must realize that we receive about three thousand applications for our summer staff positions and we can only choose three hundred.”

Since only 10 percent of the applicants were hired, I assumed they would not choose me, being a non-Baptist. Still, I figured I had nothing to lose by sending in my application. To my surprise, a few weeks later I received a letter saying that I had been accepted to work on their staff.

At the end of the school year, I traveled 866 miles across Texas to the mountains of New Mexico. I was pleased to find out that the Baptist camp was not a monastery as I had envisioned it. Half of the staff workers were college-age females.

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