As I began reading the first verses in Genesis 16 this
morning, I felt compelled to stop and journal. This is what I wrote.
“Lord, I understand Sarai well. She believed Your promise,
but when that promise was delayed, she came up with a solution that she thought
would bring Your promise to fruition. How often do I see or understand your
plan, then come up with my own solution for seeing it fulfilled? The waiting
can be so hard. I begin to second-guess myself and think that I should be doing
more – taking more steps of faith, putting more into action. You are perfectly
capable of fulfilling Your promises without my help. I know there’s a part for
me to play – even Sarai had to be intimate with Abram for Isaac to be
conceived, but You don’t need me to come up with my own way of bringing Your
promises to pass. You keep telling me that You’ve got this, so I’m going to do
what I’m supposed to do and let You do the rest.”
In so many ways, we’re waiting on Your promises to be
fulfilled right now, but we’re not alone in this. So many others whom we know
and love are in similar positions and, like us, they have huge life changes on the
horizon. In the process of our lives being renovated, which sometimes includes
being moved to an entirely new house and location, the uncertainty and the
inability to see the end from the beginning can be incredibly disconcerting.
What we do know is that You’ve given us promises and You have a solid track
record of fulfilling those in our lives. So, we’ll continue to stand on the
words that keep echoing through our minds, “God’s got this.”
