As you might imagine, I'm a little single-minded these days, so this 'choose one thought' blog idea may not work out too well. They may seem to all center around the same theme for a while. I will try to vary the idea a bit throughout the week. But today, the idea centers around the same thing I spoke about last time: my house hasn't sold.
I have become very specific in my prayers with the Lord. And bold. My prayer is not that my house will sell "soon" or "quickly". You see, scripture tells me that a day with the Lord is like a thousand years. So, I am being very specific in telling the Lord every time I pray that I would please like my house to sell THIS MONTH. Sure, it's a long shot. Sure it's the holidays. Sure it's the worst economy ever. But He is God and I will boldly ask.
Yesterday, through a series of events that I'll share later God led me to read Luke 1. And in Luke 1, I have a verse highlighted and underlined.
v. 37: "For nothing is impossible with God."
Now, I realize there are 2 ways to take this. Obviously, I could hear it that selling my home this month is not impossible with God. OR me surviving it NOT selling this month is not impossible with God. But God and I (and all of you) know which way I want that to go!
That makes me think of Evan Almighty when God had told Evan there would be a flood on Sept. whatever. And on Sept. whatever Evan is standing there ON HIS ARK that he built and there is nary a cloud in the sky.
Evan's wife says, "Maybe... maybe God didn't mean a literal flood. Maybe He meant a flood of knowledge, or emotion, or awareness."
Evan replies, "Oh, if that's true, I am going to be so ticked."
Yeah. Please Lord.
So we wait, secure in the knowledge that nothing is impossible with God.
And tonight, while we wait, to reframe our minds, the kids and I will be volunteering with a local ministry to inner city children to deliver blankets, food, and gifts for the season. And we will then return to our warm home, that we still own, and be very grateful that we have it and for all that the Lord has given us.
"For nothing is impossible with God."
2 comments:
We, too, went through the same. . .house on the market at the beginning of the economic down-turn, owned not one but TWO houses at Christmas and on into mid-April of the following year. Of course that DID give us more time to clean out the garage at the old place, but it was a MIGHTY EXPENSIVE storage unit. :)
It WILL sell. Oh, yes it will. It really, truly WILL.
Sarah, looking at this in a second perspective, wouldn't it be interesting to know how God is preparing the family that will eventually inhabit your house. What kinds of thoughts must be going through their heads as they try to plan ahead too. I, too often, forget what effects my prayers may have on the lives of others as a result of my requests if God chooses to grant them.
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