![]() ![]() God wanted to work in me! When it came right down to it I was struggling with trusting God with our homelessness. In order to cooperate with God's timing we have to let Him make necessary changes in us. We may not see the beautiful plan God is hiding in the shadow of His hand if we try to mess with His plans. ![]() There can be an agony of heart that can lose its strength, and without the grace of God, can even sink into despair. When waiting goes on for days, months, and even years, the heart can grow weary and hopeless. He was getting a house ready for us for just that appointed time. What I discovered was that just because God seemed silent, didn't mean He was inactive. The delays, the silence, the inactivity can make the waiting even more excruciating. It's especially difficult when we have done everything we know how to honor God only to watch our lives go terribly wrong. I wanted to take control because God didn't seem to be responding in the time frame I wanted Him to! I wonder how many times when "we are troubled on every side" (2 Corinthians 4:8, KJV) that we've pulled a Hagar? I almost did with that house. ![]() She ended up conceiving and she and Sarah had a contentious relationship with consequences that endured for years. Instead of being patient and waiting for God to act, Abraham let Sarah talk him into sleeping with her maidservant, Hagar. God had promised he and his wife Sarah, who was beyond child-bearing years, a child. He was facing what seemed to be the impossible. Instead of trusting God with the unknown and patiently waiting in His holding pattern, where we're often uncomfortable and helpless, we try to take matters into our own hands.Ībraham also struggled when things didn't go as planned. That's often the case in times that don't makes sense. Never was I so tempted to run ahead of God. Our house had sold and we had no where to go, my husband was ill, and I was feeling desperate so desperate that I would have settled for anything just to have a house! Instead, God wanted us to wait. Slowly riding by to familiarize myself with it again, I was so thankful we hand't bought it it would have been purchased merely out of panic instead of what was best. Out for a bike ride, I passed a house we almost bought several years ago. ![]()
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