-Just as the sky is without limit, so is my God.
A few weeks ago, I told you about how I had always wished I could sing, and the Lord directed me to the choir. I know it was nobody but God because I can tell you with 99.9% certainty that I would NOT have joined without the urging of others.
I have been kind of slack (well, not slack…I have been totally absent) about mid-week bible study. I have not been attending. I have used the excuse of school or that Tuesday (my chi-weenie) was too young to stay home by herself so long after I have been at work all day. All excuses. So at the start of this year, I said that I was going to start going to mid-week bible study. After the holiday hiatus, bible study at my church started back last week (1/4).
This is what is so amazing about God, how He works, how He puts you in the right place at the right time, how He aligns everything just perfectly. Why am I at this church? Why did I keep coming back after first visiting over two years ago? First the choir…now this….
At the start of bible study, the young adult minister paired us up to pray with each other. We were tasked with asking the person what they needed prayer for and then praying for and with that person.
Now when people ask me what I need prayer for I usually just say, “Oh, just that I get through school on time,” not wanting people in my personal business. For some reason this day, my response was,”Umm….I would say patience. How do I say this….(long pause)…patience because I am getting old.” She said, “I know exactly what you mean.” After the prayer, we talked a bit, and we talked more the next day at choir rehearsal. She is 36. She got married at 34 and had her first child at 35. She said something to me that I’m sure I have heard before…I’m almost positive I have but for God’s reason, it really gained meaning for me on this day: “We have a way of putting limits on God.”
The fact that she was over 30…over 32 (my age) when she got married and had her baby was suddenly a relief to me, and then when she said that we put limits on God, I immediately felt a weight lift from me. I have been so burdened with the idea that I am 32, no kids, no husband in sight: I am getting too old to have kids. My body will not work. What do people think? They think something is wrong with me because I’m not married…
All undue pressure because, it hit me like a ton of bricks when she said it, “We have a way of putting limits on God.” God gave Abraham Isaac after 25 years. Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah 90. Now, I realize that if I am 90 without any children, I probably will not have any, but the point here is that, God was able to do what they had already labeled as impossible. Kind of what I was doing. I had a million reasons why I was feeling desperate about the passing time instead of looking to the one reason to calm down.
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”
-Psalms 37:4
The Lord knew the desire to be married and have a family of my own even before I had knowledge of this desire. The Sunday after the bible study (1/8), our pastor said, “Many of us trust God with of souls but not with our lives.” I realized again, that this is exactly how I have been living. After these two encounters with God and the message He has for me, I really do feel like a weight has been lifted because its not for me to try to do on my own. I just have to delight myself in the Lord, continue to pray and grow in Him, and HE will take care of the rest.
There are NO limits to what God is able to do!!! And I can just shout right there!! Thank You, Jesus!!!!
What an incouraging thought!
What promise!
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