July 22, 2010

OK, Lord. What does this mean? I mean, I know what it means, but for which question or is it for something else altogether...Let me explain.

Tonights reading from Janette Oke's devotional book is about trust and expectation. Elizabeth is asking God for rain - God tellls her to be patient - she says that He knows she has never been patient - God tells her to trust Him then, that she has always been able to do that. So, she does - for two days and two nights - she is sure that God is going to send rain - as she is watering her vegetable garden, she noticed a cloud in the sky - from the east, not from where rain clouds usually form. She smiles and thinks that that is just like God, to do something out of the ordinary so you know it was God who did it. God did send rain...eventually - but not before the fire came - but her prayer was answered, just not in the time she thought it should be done in.

Now, I have asked You for things about this trip, Lord. I do trust You - about how we are going to get our stuff there and for a place to live after we get there. Sometimes Your answers are not what we expected or when we expected it (like this move to NB). Lord, help me to trust You - not only for the answers, but the timing of them as well. I know that Your timing is perfect, not mine, so help me to trust You in this...thank You, Lord.

"For your thoughts are not my thoughts; neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." Isaiah 55:8

"My soul, wait thou only on God; for my expectation is from him." Psalm 62:5

"My help cometh from the Lord." Psalm 121:2

"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall wear...Behold, the fowls of the air...your heavenly Father feedeth them." Matthew 6:25-26