It all started with a necklace...
Mother's Day 2011 will always mark the beginning of our journey to our children in Africa when my husband and kids bought me one of these necklaces through a friend who was selling them for her friend's adoption (a string of events to say the least).
In Lysa TerKeurst's book What Happens When Women Say Yes To God she points out that sometimes God's will for our life can begin by way of something rather trivial, even mundane, though God has an extraordinary plan.
This would be true in the case of the necklace. How could my family know when they gave this gift to me that God would use it to direct our adoption plans toward our future children's birth country? How could I have guessed that my scribbled thoughts in my journal that night would come to fruition over time?
This would be true in the case of the necklace. How could my family know when they gave this gift to me that God would use it to direct our adoption plans toward our future children's birth country? How could I have guessed that my scribbled thoughts in my journal that night would come to fruition over time?
Of course we couldn't have known how God would use the necklace to spark a flame.
We couldn't have projected how He would fan that flame into a fire in my husband's heart. And, we still can't see how this will all play out. But that's alright with us because we're walking by faith, knowing that God knows all the things we don't. He is the author and perfecter of our faith and we've made a choice to trust Him.
We couldn't have projected how He would fan that flame into a fire in my husband's heart. And, we still can't see how this will all play out. But that's alright with us because we're walking by faith, knowing that God knows all the things we don't. He is the author and perfecter of our faith and we've made a choice to trust Him.
As Lysa TerKeurst would say...most Christians call ourselves people of faith and yet live lives requiring very little faith.
I don't want to be like that. I want to live a life that does require faith.
I want to follow Jesus wholeheartedly because I believe it when the Bible says that nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37) and I've seen that He can use anyone or anything to accomplish His will...even a necklace.
I want to follow Jesus wholeheartedly because I believe it when the Bible says that nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37) and I've seen that He can use anyone or anything to accomplish His will...even a necklace.
"God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible.
What a pity when we plan only the things we can do by ourselves." -A.W. Tozer
What a pity when we plan only the things we can do by ourselves." -A.W. Tozer
Magazine bead necklaces from Uganda:
