Company Time

The past couple days I was actually on a trip to the Waterloo area, as my boss/manager had to reschedule a meeting overseas to the first week of my work as a result of that volcano fun. I ended up doing a bunch of tours and training sessions to learn about the things that I will be working with over the summer, and one of those was heading up to the Cedar Falls & Waterloo area for two days to tour facilities there and meet with some of the people there, learning about their capabilities and such.

Throughout the course of the trip, it occurred to me how interesting it was – I was driving up there myself, to be reimbursed, staying at a hotel, paid for by Deere, eating dinner, apparently also paid for by Deere, and working with people from Deere there. Everything was taken care of either logistically or financially by John Deere.

Thinking about that gave me a large parallel to how God works in our lives. During the course of my trip, I had no choice but to ‘depend’ on Deere, not only am I new to the company but I had never been to that area before. Deere took care of everything I did for those days, making me feel incredibly welcomed and in a good place. It is so easy to see that when there is a physical entity doing so – for example, I could see how everything I needed was taken care of by the company because it physically was so.

But God does the same thing. He takes care of us in every way. We just do not necessarily see it in the same “obviousness” that happens on a company trip or similar, more physically manifested way. Throughout the course of the trip I pondered this and it really made me feel loved by God. Because He does take care of our every need, and He does provide all manner of things for us. The hard part of course is that what we need, and what we want, are not always the same.

Anyways, I just found that really encouraging and a great parallel for how God takes care of us.

Matt 6:26 - Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?