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Attitude Adjustment

Mar 2, 2008
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Continuing thoughts about answered prayer and ministry:

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When we were expecting our second child, we were required to move out of our adults-only apartment building. That year Ron dropped out of graduate school for a time, so we purchased our first house - one that we could afford - in a lower income neighborhood. The house was one of the early mass-produced variety. It was totally without character and located in a neighborhood that had a little too much "character." I was completely out of my comfort zone.

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The thing that distressed me most was feeling that I was a "high class" person in a "lower class" place. I had never experienced those kind of thoughts before and I hated it. I asked the Lord to forgive me, thinking about the words in Romans 12:16 "Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited." I prayed that if I had to live in this place, God would give me a love for the people in the neighborhood.

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The Lord answered my prayer by having someone invite me to a Child Evangelism training class. There, I listened to a master teacher give Bible stories with flash cards and flannel graph - complete with visualised songs. Then I began a Good News Club in my home where I taught the neighborhood children about Jesus. There is nothing that will cause you to love someone more than to lead them to Jesus. How could I not love the adults who were their parents as well?

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So God helped me to love the people and gave me a ministry as well. But He did not give me contentment about the house and neighborhood - and now I know why. He wanted me to be ready to pick up and move when my husband was offered a graduate assistantship in a midwestern town I had never heard of - leaving our extended family behind in sunny California. Sometimes I think God really has a sense of humor!

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Have you ever been surprised by an attitude you never expected to have? What did you do about it?