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May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.
Ruth 2:12

I was looking for a place to live. The son of the land-lord was returning, and he would be returning to my room, and so it was time to move!

Trying to find a new place to live wasn't as straight-forward as one would think. Since I am a foreigner (an American missionary living in Poland), I have to be registered. Registering a renter isn't really high on the list of people to rent to, since it means that one has to deal with the paperwork (waiting in line at a government office) and then later has to pay taxes on the rent.

So..... my daily struggle of trying to find a place to live continued. Each morning I was spending time in the Word, and each day the promises of God met me where I was in the process. I was less than a week away from needing to be out of my current place. During the last month of searching with no success I was still feeling peace that the Lord would provide. Today, however, I was feeling a bit of stress, knowing I had to again search the internet for available places, make many phone calls and hope for one person to be willing to register me. Today, the price or location was not making a difference to me. I only needed to find someone who would register me. Then I read the Scripture for that day.

It was out of Ruth 2:12, “May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Everything was going to be okay, I am under God's wings. Then came some further reading that reminded me how I was going to be okay. In Ruth 4, the Lord worked out the details for Ruth, Naomi and Boaz to a beautiful conclusion. The summary was such: "Sometimes you can only do so much yourself. You have to trust that God & others will play their part too. Pray for the strength to trust."

So that day, I did pray for the strength to trust & continued my search for an apartment.

Written by
Theresa Zacher