After confessing where our hearts went wrong, I lifted up every obstacle and prayed for them to be destroyed in a way that continues to bring Him more glory. It wasn't but a few hours later, when Dad received a call that the medical form was finally notarized and ready to be picked up (Obstacle #1: decimated). Shortly after that, Dad noticed on one of the forms we've been struggling to have completed, that a realtor could complete what we've been fighting the mortgage company for weeks to do (Obstacle #2: destroyed)!! And guess what our neighbor does for a living? Realty. He was able to get us in and out within the hour (Obstacle #3: completely avoided). THEN, on our way home from our neighbor's office, Dad received an email from Ni Ni and Yeh Yeh (your paternal grandparents) that they would like to support us by paying for the airplane tickets we're about ready to purchase (Obstacle #4: non-existent)!
It was a CRaZy day of AMAZING highs. For this reason, this morning's devotional reading wasn't adding up at first:
I wasn't fearing! Providence was less fickle than ever, and the utter chaos seemed to finally be behind us!!
…then this afternoon happened. Upon picking up the medical form, that took weeks to have completed, Dad discovered it hadn't been completed properly and would be rejected by the Ukrainian government if it wasn't fixed. Back to Square One on that obstacle. So frustrating. Something so small, which could so majorly set us behind : /
I was almost discouraged, until all that I read this morning came flooding back. It is incredibly cool how our Lord proved once more that nothing happens that He's not already aware of. He's gone before us and has got this whole process in His hands; He has a plan in the works that will end in victory for us--if we endure faithfully.
I praise Him for reminding us that our hands our tied--that we need Him. As the devotion continues:
Our desperate awareness of our complete helplessness will help His grace operate more effectively, and His victorious plans to more quickly come to fruition <3 He's a God worth praising, even when a storm arises:
24And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep. 25And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing!”26He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. 27The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” -Matthew 8:24-27
