Mr. Alistair - 7th Devotional

The Lord will work for all who put their trust in Him. Precious victories will be gained by the faithful. Precious lessons will be learned. Precious experiences will be realized. – Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pg. 11.

         

   It was a scorching summer afternoon at Fountainview Academy, and I was raking grass after the lawn had been mowed. The sun was blazing and I felt sick. I was wishing I was doing something else out of that baking sun when I saw Mr. Alistair, my boss, coming on his truck. “Mildred,” he greeted me with his lively New Zealand accent, “we are going to go move pipe lines; but you are going to drive us there.”

            At that moment I was still learning to drive. I would practice with my dad and be fine, but driving with Mr. Alistair was really embarrassing. I knew I was going to make a mistake and he would laugh at me. Finally, I took a deep breath and got behind the wheel. Everything went fine until we got to a place where we had to turn around in a really narrow space, with a hill on one side and a cliff on the other. I didn’t know how to turn around in such a small space. Mr. Alistair gave me some instructions on how I had to do it, but I was too scared to even try. “Mildred, you need to trust me’,” his voice was calm but firm, and he wasn’t laughing at me. “I’m the one who knows what to do; you need to trust me, Mildred.”. I trusted his word and I turned around. We didn’t go down the cliff! After that experience, my confidence grew, not only in myself and in my driving skills, but in Mr. Alistair too.

            There have been many times in my life when I felt that I would go down the cliff if I took only one more step; I would be too embarrassed to even try. But Jesus is the One who knows what to do, and He tells me “Trust me, Mildred.” When I trust His word, that’s when He can work for me. I gain victories, and my confidence in Him grows.

 ~ Mildred Rhys