Thursday, February 23, 2012

Patience Patience Patience


I was reading this morning and was lead to Micah 7:7 by a friend, and it couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. It’s seriously SO good.

“But me, I’m not giving up. I’m sticking around to see what God will do. I’m waiting for God to make things right. I’m counting on God to listen to me.”

            You see I had just unburdened a lot on her and was starting to sound a little whiney, but she just let me talk my way into this little “pity party hole” I had dug and then simply handed me the right tools to get myself out. When she told me what verse I started to scoff at her because who seriously knows anything about the book of Micah? But, man was I wrong to doubt the Lord speaking through my sweet friend. So this got me thinking, what else am I missing by overlooking these small books by names that I can’t spell without looking them up? Oh hey Habakkuk.

“And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming- it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time.”

            So good, right?

            Confession time: I’ve been really frustrated since my last post and that’s why I haven’t posted for the past month. God had revealed so much to me in the span of just a couple of days and I was completely on fire and ready to get out there and help those sweet little orphans. And then all of the sudden I was getting nothing from him. Now that’s not entirely true, I was getting great stuff from Him, but it just wasn’t what I wanted to hear after getting flooded with awesomeness earlier.  “Wait.” That’s all I was letting myself hear and that is the most frustrating thing for someone to hear. My passion for these orphans that I WILL be helping to find homes is so great that the idea of waiting a couple of years seems like forever. Lucky for me there is India this summer.

            Have I mentioned how excited I am about this trip? I wish that it was this week, but I know that God will use the next 4 months to prepare my heart for what I know will be a life changing trip. There is so much to do in the mean time, like raising the money to go. It’s a lot of money but I’m also expecting a lot of support and I can’t wait to see how the Lord is going to work all of this out. I’m believing that the Lord has some great things in store for me so I’m really just trying to focus more on being patient with HIS timing because if it happens on my time I simply won’t be adequately prepared for any of this.

“We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised”
Hebrews 6:12

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