God's Got This

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.”