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Psalm 18:30 “This God—his way is perfect.” This verse has been continually on my heart and mind over the past week as it looked more and more likely that our accreditation team visit would be postponed due to weather. February 19-21 were the dates scheduled for the team of four to visit the school, interviewing and observing teachers and staff, investigating to make sure that we are providing students and their families with the academic excellence and biblical perspective we claim as our mission. We have spent months preparing for this visit, and staff have worked diligently in many ways to be ready. We were anticipating the process of learning and growing through the visit and, most of all, looked forward to having it completed.
The God of Psalm 18 makes the word big seem small. “The LORD thundered in the heavens…he flashed forth lightnings and routed them” (v. 13-14). This God rescued, supported and delighted in me (v. 18-19). Verse 6 says he “heard my voice and my cry to him reached his ears.” Was the snowy weather a mistake? Had God not heard us ask Him to keep it from happening? The God of Psalm 18 is big enough to manage Kansas weather. He is compassionate enough to hear us call to him. It was only in God’s sovereign plan that he allowed the weather forecast to become reality, and the team visit to be postponed.
The new dates for the team to visit are April 21-23. It seems like a long time to wait, and there are some things we will have to do over again since it was delayed, but we have to submit ourselves in this to God’s timing. In the meantime, we will focus on several other big events in our school year-4th-6th grade fine arts competition in Ottawa, Open House, and Spring Showcase. The Eagle 5K is April 26. We want each of these to be accomplished in God’s time and plan as well.
As I have continued to consider God’s plan for this week, which was different than mine, I reread a quote that I copied several weeks ago from search results on blueletterbible.org. “Meekness toward God is that disposition of spirit in which we accept his dealings with us as good, and therefore without disputing or resisting….(Gentleness) stems from trust in God’s goodness and control over the situation. The gentle person is not occupied with self at all. This is a work of the Holy Spirit, not of the human will.”
“This God-His way is perfect.”
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