Wait, What? Learning to Be Still, While You’re Waiting on God to MoveПримерок

Remember when Abraham was creeping 80 years old, and God told him that he would make him a great nation? At 80. And then he and his wife Sarah ended up trying to take things into their own hands and he had a child with their maid. Yep. That’s complicated.

Isn’t that how we are though? We make a mess of things and then we say ok God here you go – this is what we’re working with. 

And God said – NO Abraham, I’m going to do what I said I was going to do. Because GOD FULFILLS HIS PROMISES. 

Abraham fell on his face and laughed at God saying – God, are you really going to make me a new dad at 100 years old? Dang – I’m 41 and I feel this in my bones – literally. 

How many times have you just cried out to God, asking him “How”?

And then God did as he promised. His word did not go void. At 90 years old, Sarah delivers a baby. Can you imagine the celebration? The pure shock? The gossip? The looks? The joy, gratitude, love, and abundance that come from the promise that God fulfilled! 

God can make beauty from our ashes. God can move in ways that we will never comprehend. And he just asks us to obey, release control, and have faith.

Abraham was obedient based on previous victories of where God showed up. He knew God’s promises were true, he remembered the character of God, he remembered what God had done in the past, he had a history of waiting on God, he had a history of God coming through after his waiting. When it came time to wait again - Abraham knew what God could do if he just waited for God to do it! In obedience, releasing control, through faith. 

God didn’t need anything that was put on that altar, He wanted Abraham’s heart. And he knew he had it but maybe Abraham needed to be reminded that he still had it. He wanted Abraham to live HIS FAITH OUT to be a reminder to him. Because sometimes we can get so caught up in the waiting, that we lose our way and our focus – we lose our priorities. 

But when our FAITH is our first obedient response, the waiting is no longer the focus. Our faith is.