The Director's Cut
People of faith know that God often comes through in the 11th hour. This is one question I plan to ask Him when we meet face to face: “What’s up with the 11th hour thing? Why not the 10th? Or the 9th?”
But I digress…
I want to share a story about a time where I saw God come through in the 11th hour. I was co-directing a play titled Robbie Johnson Goes to Camp. On the night of the dress rehearsal we (literally) stayed at the theater until the middle of the night, but never made it past the first act. I told my good friend (at 3:00 a.m.) “There’s no way we can do a show tomorrow night. We’ll just have to cancel.” In my mind, the whole thing seemed completely impossible. (Ever been there?)
The next morning we got up, somehow muddled our way through a rehearsal, and put on a whopper of a show that same night. When I say “whopper of a show” I mean a great show! It was truly amazing. Yep, God (and my actors) came through in the 11th hour. (Why was I surprised?)
If you’ve read my book, The Director’s Cut, you know that Tia (the heroine) likes all of her ducks in a row. She’s not keen on surprises. (Structured/disciplined/OCDish folks rarely are.) When it comes to directing a show of any kind, we directors like things to be “just so.” But sometimes we’re headed into the 10th hour and things are a mess. Then comes the 11th hour. . .and bam! A miracle occurs!
To enjoy some of those miracles alongside Tia, you’ll just have to read The Director’s Cut. In the meantime, leave a story about a time God came through for you in the 11th hour!
God’s perfect timing certainly came thru in a HUGE way for me twice in a short time after my divorce a few years back. Had a slit level home and full sized van with payments due that were more than I could afford even by working 3 jobs plus child support. I put our home on the market for 15 months and prayed hard yet it wasn’t selling. But with the Lord’s 11th hour perfect timing I got word it was sold and we closed at 10 am the very day the mortgage company was scheduled to come pick up the keys by 5 pm! Now fast forward to the next year and I am still paying on my full sized van and I got hurt and couldn’t work and mortgage company said I had to give back the van with only 2 payments left. The thought of this hurt me badly but I had no choice and knew I would have no vehicle at all for our needs. Once again someone bought the van the morning I was to surrender it to the mortgage company. I only had 2 prayments left and couldn’t understand why.. but the Lord spoke and said “I m not increasing your income but I am decreasing your outgo” and shortly thereafter someone blessed me with a free car! AIn’t GOD GOOD?
Wowza! Yes, He’s good, all right! Thanks so much for sharing!