Patience

This is what greets me every morning since November of last year. Our lovely for sale sign. We are building a new home which we are eagerly awaiting, yet we have to sell the home that we are in now. The number of people who have seen our home is equal to the number of days we have lived in our new home......Zero. I hate the number zero. It is equal to everything negative. At least the number one gives hope, but zero.

This is a huge area of patience for us. This is a huge area of faith for us. And each morning when I go out the door, I have to ask myself if I can trust God to sell our house. We have done everything we can, fliers, sign, a realtor, and Internet coverage.........yet. We worry, we fret, and then say we are trusting God to sell our home. We like to plan things ahead, get our ducks in a row, jump the gun, cut them off at the pass, and be prepared. We've crunched the numbers and did the math and things need to happen right now if they are going to work out at all. God's way is so different than ours, God's way is always the best, comes in the most unexpected ways, and ends in growth as a Christian.

"Oh, what a wonderful God we have. How great are his riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible is it for us to understand his decisions and his methods! For who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who knows enough to be his counselor? And who could ever give him so much that he would have to pay it back? For everything exists by his power and is intended for his glory. To him be glory evermore. Amen."
Romans 11:33-36

When you can truly grasp these verses, an when you can take them in and believe every word, life no longer is a worrisome road, but an exciting adventure. How wonderful to have a director that is never surprised and that knows no set-backs. To know Him who can see the beginning and the end at the same time is a privilege. We will never understand it and it will never make sense. We can never pay him forward. It is all God and only God that does good. He wants to His work whether it is something so trivial as a house for sale or as deep as a crisis, God knows the ending and only uses things for His glory which is pretty awesome!