Friday, September 2, 2011

The words came out of my mouth!

"That is not what I wanted to hear!  That is not even close to what I asked God to do!"
I was baffled.  "Why this, God?  It doesn't even make any sense!  We've been standing still and letting You move in our lives and this is what You have for us?  I don't get it.  I don't understand."
Yes, I said that...out loud...in my weakness...I wobbled. 
My father reminded me that, "Weebles wobble...but they don't fall down!"  That silly saying about plastic toys was also a challenge to my thinking.
If you haven't been to this point yet...you will...someday!  All those verses and things you have been taught for years and say you believe...will be put to the test...over and over and over.  And the tests won't be spaced out, so you can revel in the fact that you passed a particular one.  The tests will come one on top of the other...before you even have time to prepare for the fact that another one has already started! You most likely will fail...or do poorly...on a couple tests...and it is during those tests...you learn!
You will feel overwhelmed...and fatigued by the weight of it all!
It is in those moments of weakness...where all you can do is look up...and ask, "Dear Lord, please help me to trust in Your sovereign plan."
In the midst of my weakness and wobbling...
my father wisely counseled me to make a list of things to be grateful for regarding a particular situation.  Then he wanted a copy of it...that is called accountability!  Do you know...all week...I've been able to add to that list!?  And each addition is a little part of the big answer to prayer!  I think, so often, we fail to see that our Heavenly Father has all the details covered in each answer.  I wobbled for a few moments this week...I say He is in control of our lives...and when the test came...again...my weakness came out. 
I am so glad for my father's wisdom in asking me to do that...it changed my focus...quickly!  God did answer the prayer we had...it just wasn't answered the way I had hoped or expected. 
How often do we question God's answers?  From my own personal experience...more than we should!
How quickly I forget the words in Jeremiah 33:3, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

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