Jericho or Bust Part 4
This is part 4 of the series Jericho or bust. If you have not read the preceding parts I would highly encourage you to do so now.
Also this will be my last blog entry for a little while as I need to send my laptop in for some work and I will be at Signs and Wonders camp next week. I get to go play with kids and camp out.
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I had some stock left over from when I worked for ABB. I was keeping this stock because I wanted to wait until it got a little higher in value so that I would have enough to pay off my college loan. At one point last year it did get high enough, but it was climbing so that I did not want to sell it quite yet. I got busy with other things and did not check it for a week or so. When I did it had fallen quite a bit so I decided to just leave it sit and hope that it would climb back up again.
Now the problem with all of this was I really felt that the Lord wanted me to sell this stock and get myself completely out of dept, but with the stock price falling I resisted Him on this and decided to just hold out. About two weeks after this I decided to log into my account one Saturday and check the stock. When I did I found all my stock had been sold off a few months ago (I only logged into my Smith Barney account a couple of times a year, I normally just checked the price online through MSN). I was devastated to say the least. I figured someone had gotten into my account and stolen my stocks. I just had this happen to my bank account about 8 months before and I thought I was witnessing the same thing again.
Monday morning I called to find out what happened. After much run around it turns out that ABB without asking me sold off my stock and sent me a check which I never received. It turns out that the department that deals with Employee Stock Option Plan had my wrong address which was impossible as I update my address with Human Recourse every time I move as they still had my 401K money.
I was pretty upset about all this until I stopped and prayed about it. The Lord reminded me that He really wanted me to go to Israel without carrying this major debt and that I had resisted Him. So I truly believe this was His loving hand helping me do something that I resisted doing. He knows what is best and I just need to listen to Him. There is a reason I need to be out of debt and he is just making sure that it happened. Thank you Lord for taking care of me even when I am to stubborn to listen.
One last thing, in further discussion with Smith Barney about this I found out that I was only allowed to have this account (ABB was paying for it) with Smith Barney for 3 months after I left ABB. I never new this and just left the stocks with Smith Barney for over 3 years. I really feel God let it sit there until it was time for me to sell it. In the end it paid off my school loan, and bought my plan ticket to Israel. Do I have a great God in Jesus or what!
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