Three Miracles … One Great Song
Well, yesterday I found out three amazing things. Two of which have to do with someone else, events which happened in their life which not only caused me great joy for them but increased my confidence and faith that God is at work in this country that I love, increasing my hope for the future. Plus a miracle He has done on my behalf. I am in awe. I am on cloud nine.
About that miracle. It seems to me that somehow (He's God, does it matter how He did it?), God raised my credit score by more than 50 points in 2 days, just before my bank checked it to see if they would give me a loan and what terms it would be under.
Why do I say God did this? Why not some other explanation? Well, I had already found out the bank would be checking and making their decision based on whatever report they got from a certain credit reporting agency – the very one (of three) at which I had my flat-out worst score. Lovely.
I had thoroughly examined my report with this agency (and the other two) and there was nothing left to be done, which had not already been done, short term, to improve the score. I had done many things over the past few months such as paying off all credit cards, paying off a few almost-finished loans early to get them closed, etc., all these things had shown up and had their effects on my score already, and there was just nothing more to be done to make it any better.
The 50 points my score went up in those two days, without any changes to the actual content of the report, were enough to get me the financing I needed and get it with very favorable terms. And frankly, there was no reason, no reason at all for my score to go up one bit. Not to mention 50 points. 50 points is about 13% on that scale, but more importantly, for me, it crossed a line from “good” to “excellent.” That was an important line to cross. It was simply a miracle that it happened.
The very least I can say about this miracle is that if it is simply explained by some credit score phenomenon that I do not understand, even something as simple as major differences in scoring algorithms, that I am very certain God directed all the events that led up to it ending up where it did, when it did. That was one big load of events that all had to happen, in sequence. But as for me, I do not have any other explanation. I’ve worked these credit reports for 4 months now. I’ve seen how they work.
These loans are a big deal for me ... they allow me to take my business to the next level entirely, and enable another possibly huge skyrocket upwards for the rest of this year. The “fairy tale” business story is on the horizon at this point.
I don’t really understand why God would choose to bless me in this way. A friend of mine said I deserve it, but I can think of a lot of other things I deserve too (negative things) and I’m not getting them. J And forget the scales of justice … the idea of me doing “enough good things” to cover my “bad things.” I fell off the “bad” side long ago, ready to just give up, but God caught me, and we haven’t visited those scales in a while. My life since has been about learning to own His mercy, grace, love and provision, and learning to trust Him when things don’t look good. And this one … this one too is all about God’s mercy, grace, love, and provision.
So anyway the main feature today is actually not me babbling on about this stuff, but it's time for one of my favorite songs ... on a day this good, it takes a song this intense to really say it and I just couldn't think of a better song to express my mood.
We Rejoice In You [MP3]
by Shae Cottar
We rejoice in you
We rejoice in you
In our rising and falling
In our sinking and climbing
In our blessing and needing
We praise you
In the highest of heavens
In the lowest of valleys
Deep in all of creation
We praise you
We're not about to let the rocks cry out
We'll shout it to the top of our lungs
We're gonna raise the name of Jesus high
We'll share the love we've found with
everyone
We rejoice in you
We rejoice in you
In our seeking and finding
In our coming and going
In our hoping and praying
We praise you
From the top of the mountains
From the depths of the valleys
Every tongue and nation
Will praise you
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