So I have finally decided to start blogging…Where to begin…perhaps I’ll begin with this past Tuesday. This past Tuesday was like any other Tuesday; nothing special or out of the ordinary. I still had to get up at 7 for my 8 o’clock class, oh how I despise 8 o’clock classes. Class was let out a little early that day, probably around 9, I usually go back to my room and go back to bed but that day I had a meeting with an education professor. I had gotten back to my room and my roommate was awake. When I walked in the door she announced to me that our whole unit had no hot water and that no one knew when the hot water would be back on. My reaction was something along the lines of…”WHAT!?! No hot water!? Seriously? Just our unit!?”
I then proceeded on with my day and waited for my meeting. Once I got back from my meeting I walked over to my suitemates room and said, “Hey, did you guys know that we, as in just our unit, have no hot water!” Once again the whole conversation started over again…only this time we were all saying, “Seriously just our unit has no hot water? that's crap!" This may seem incredibly ridiculous to you, but seriously hot water is a HUGE deal….okay maybe not that big of deal, maybe not a big deal at all.
We later got our precious hot water back and it wasn’t long after that God spoke to me. I had made such a huge fuss over hot water, how incredibly ridiculous. Yes, I said it; it was RIDICULOUS! This is what God told me and I felt extremely convicted. “Erin, you have the privilege of having hot water every single day. You don’t have to do any extra work to get it. How fortunate are you.”
Wow! How lame did I feel. Here I was complaining about not having hot water for just a couple of hours, and in case you didn’t already think I was ridiculous enough for complaining here’s where it gets even better. I wasn’t even planning on taking a shower, I had no use or need for hot water any time soon. The thing is though how many people in this world have to go without taking a hot shower. How many people even get to take more than one shower a week, a month? You know, some people have to go down to the river or creek just to get “clean.” I can’t believe I was complaining about not having hot water. I then proceeded to ask myself, “Would you be okay if you could no longer take hot showers?” It seems really easy to just say yeah, I could do that…cold showers aren't that bad every once in awhle. Okay wrong cold showers suck, but what does it matter? I would still be getting clean and the water I would be using would be clean. I wasn’t satisfied with my answer, because honestly I didn’t have one. I asked myself again, “Would you be okay without hot showers?” I still couldn’t answer that question…but then this verse came to my mind. Philippians 4:19, “And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”
Who am I to complain about anything? I am so fortunate to have what I do. Besides all of that God will provide for me. He will meet all my needs, what a great promise! God doesn’t just promise that He will meet some of our needs, He promises to meet ALL our needs. He may not meet them in the way we would like, but He does meet and He does provide. Thank you God for teaching me a lesson over something as simple as having no hot water.
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