Youth Dinner

Theres no situation so chaotic that God cannot, from
that situation, create something surpassingly good...

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Take tonight for instance. If you want to see chaotic and insane. Please be behind the scenes before/during a youth dinner at my church. I'm glad God gave me a dose of adrenaline in the form of Eggnog and NSync before i got there because if not i don't think i would have been able to make it through the night. Between the insanity of trying to fit 300+ people into our gym (and the VIP Hallway) to eat dinner and having 25 middle/high school kids serve them dinner (with side options) we all made it out alive (and relitively clean)and the line that from what i heard streched around the entire lobby of the church, and the moments where even our drink maker was starting to stress. I think we all kind of got a sense of what that quote means. you know. There is no situation so chaotic that God can't bring it peace.

Finnally at 7:30 (or what felt like 10:30) we we're all able to take a short breather. Looking back on the night, even you know... 3 hours later. I don't really think about chaos or stress or not having enough tables. I think about looking around and seeing the smiling faces of our wait staff and (wonderful) cooks just sharing the joy and humility of Jesus by serving other people. It was really awesome to see the tables rumble with excitement when they saw their food coming and they wait staff just light up when they got compliments. Looking back a whole 3 hours, it was really awesome to see what God did through the chaos.

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Thinking about it doesn't He do the same thing with our lives?
You know at first in the moment it seems totally hectic and like there is NO possible way this will all get done. and just kinda hopeless when it seems like your trying to squeeze 300 things (or people) into such a small space. But looking back on the 'chaotic' times in my life i don't remember the stress or everything that went (or could have gone) wrong. Rather i rememeber the grace and the peace that i recieved when i just placed the situation in God's hands and stopped stressing about it. Just trusted Him enough to know that He could handle it without my help.

Maybe we should treat every sitation like a Youth dinner. Pray before we start, try our best with what we are told to do, and just let God have the chaos and insanity while we hold onto the peace and smiles. <3