God is so much bigger

A couple of days ago I read a friends blog about adoption.  They have fallen in love with 4 beautiful children in Guatemala.  But.....adoptions are closed between the United States and Guatemala.  So the only way these beautiful babies are coming home to the States is through a miracle of God.  I commented on her blog that God is SO much bigger than our dreams.  I didn't want to "blog" in the comment section of her blog so I'll do it here instead :-)  But the truth is, is that God sees so much more for our lives than we could even fathom.
Matthew 7:7  "Says ask and it will be given...."  That means He already has it.  It isn't like you ask for something and then God says, "ok hang on just a sec. I gotta run to Target and pick it up."  He already knows, He already has anything we could ever need.  Because His dreams for us are so much more. Maybe it is opening up adoptions, Or maybe it is a solution that we can't even imagine.  God is God and He is so much bigger than anything we could dream.
But in the same breath I think how much bigger God is than our greatest fears.  He already knows and sees those too.  There is nothing that we could fear that God hasn't already seen.  As I type, I am sitting waiting on a phone call from one my oldest dearest friends.  Her doctor recently removed a mole that has now tested positive for melanoma.  She is right now at a hospital being scanned to see if there is any other signs of cancer.  FEAR is pretty big this morning. But I know that God is bigger than anything we could dream up to fear.
Monday nights I have a women's group that I lead in Bible study. We are studying the book of Jonah.  It is all about Navigating the Interrupted Life.  When something happens, like a pregnancy, job change, moving, a call into ministry, etc. and it changes the course of the life you are living.
The first week we learned about  "The interrupted life is a privileged life." Being interrupted by GOD is certainly something that should be considered a privilege.  God may use many things to interrupt us, but the fact that the Creator of the Universe (who doesn't need us) loves us enough to interrupt our lives and let us be apart of His plan........WOW.... that is a privilege.  But this week we learned about "The interrupted Life is the Challenging Life".  Now that is the truth! The word  challenging is an understatement.  Sitting in a doctor's office waiting to hear if it is cancer or not, is a little more than "challenging".  But it is most definitely a "Life Interrupted".
Jonah had to go to Ninevah, a hopeless, forsaken land.  Because it was there that God showed up. It was there in the HOPELESSNESS that God swept the land and brought a great revival. I wonder if Ninevah hadn't been such a hopeless place, if they would have even noticed God showing up.  In a hopeless situation God used a life that was interrupted to change history.


~LL