Waiting

Please excuse this post if it’s a little random and run-on….. My heart is on fire- my hope is restored, my God hears me!  He hears what I pray, He hears what I think- what I don’t say.  How awesome is that??  Recently I found a new favorite verse- Micah 7:7

“But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD,
I wait for God my Savior;
my God will hear me. “

And He does.  He does even when it seems like I’m not getting through.  Even in the waiting!

Our adoption journey has been a lot of waiting so far.  And I’ve struggled with that.  All the roadblocks, the closed doors- I wondered did it mean we weren’t supposed to adopt, or not right now??  But the one thing I KNOW is that we have been called to adopt.  And in my heart I know that.  And we felt like now was the time… and so we’ve been going down the paths we’ve been led down.  And someday, maybe soon, maybe not til heaven we will see His greater plan.  Why things have gone they way they have.  The lessons we have learned along the way.  How He is glorified through it all.  But for now we are waiting.  Waiting for Him to lead us where he wants us to go.

I was talking with an adoptive mom this morning and telling her where we were- and how people probably think, and how I sometimes think about maybe this isn’t His will.  That maybe God is trying to tell us something.  But as I shared with her I KNOW that is not true.  This is just a small piece of the plan.  In my quiet time today I was reflecting on how I hadn’t believed that until I said it to her.  I’ve never really had the Lord speak to me using my own voice before- but I think that’s what happened.  And I am resting in the fact that He is in control.  As I continued in my quiet time I was reading ahead for our bible study.  I opened up to Habakkuk 2. 

“What's God going to say to my questions? I'm braced for the worst. I'll climb to the lookout tower and scan the horizon.
I'll wait to see what God says,
how he'll answer my complaint. And then God answered: "Write this.
Write what you see.
Write it out in big block letters
so that it can be read on the run.
This vision-message is a witness
pointing to what's coming.
It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait!
And it doesn't lie.
If it seems slow in coming, wait.
It's on its way. It will come right on time. “

WOW!  And we go back to MY GOD WILL HEAR ME.  He heard my questions, my doubts, and answered me- “It will come right on time”

So- we will continue waiting- in big block letters…..

We are waiting for God to bring us a child through adoption!

I can hardly wait