Devotion 01.23.15

I send out devotions to a list of friends and family from time to time.  They are primarily just what God is saying to me through His word, but I share it in hopes that what He is saying to me needs to be heard by someone else, too.  The Word I came across this week went right along with the current status of my heart.  Oh, how Jesus speaks so loudly when we open our ears to listen.

Devotion for 01.23.15

“So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”  The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord?  At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” Genesis 18:12-14

“The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as He had promised.  And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time which God had spoken to him.”  Genesis 21:1 & 2

There have been quite a few times in my life where I have felt God calling me to do something and I just can’t even understand where He got the idea.  So many thoughts go through my head…”how will I be able to do that?  Who will provide the resources?  When will I know when the time is right?  What are people going to think of this idea?”  Much like Sarah, we are so quick to worry about what the world will think or how many things we have standing against us that we forget to consider the source of the whole idea.  God quickly proved to Sarah that not only did He not need her help, but that regardless of how she felt about the situation, it WAS going to happen.

Why are we so quick to doubt what the Lord can do in our lives?  Not only that, but why do we seem to have this idea that He needs our approval to do what He says He will do?  Have we not learned yet that it is out of our control?  “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”  I’m sure that years before this, Sarah would have been delighted to have a child.  But she was far past that point now.  She was “worn out” and had come to terms with the fact that she would never be a mother.  But God doesn’t care about timing, or whether or not we trust what He says, and even if we laugh in His face.  When He has a plan, He will be sure that it is fulfilled, whether we would like to join Him or not. 

I am done running away from what I feel God is putting in my path.  I think it is time that we embrace what He has set before us.  He’s going to do it despite what we think of the idea.  Why wouldn’t we want to be used by Him to fulfill His ultimate purpose?  That’s why we were put here in the first place, right?  For is anything too hard for the Lord?  Seek His face and ask what He has in His plan for you to be part of.  He is ready to use you.  You just have to be willing to say yes!

I love you and I’m praying for you!  Please remember to keep me in your prayers, too!  God has big surprises for this year!  Make sure you are ready!