Things Thought Impossible
In Bible study this week we studied the way that God works through "impossible" situations. The base topic was Moses, the Israelites, and how God moved them out of Egypt toward the promised land.
I thought of the parting of the Red Sea story in a different way than ever before. For some reason I never realized that God actually plotted, schemed to get the Israelites into what looked like a humanly impossible situation... in order to demonstrate his glory before the Egyptions/Israelites. God actually brought the Israelites up to the Sea, to a place from which they could not, theoretically, easily escape. Instead of immediately opening a pathway through the Sea, God had them wait as the Egyptians came toward them. Then, of course, the Israelites complained, and God started blowing the waters back with a wind. In the meantime, it seems that a dark cloud kept the Egyptians from realizing that this was going on, and kept the Egyptians from attacking the Israelites. And you know the rest of the story.
Well, I saw God's hand at work this week... and it made me excited. Almost jumping up and down excited. I guess the story actually goes back a couple weeks.
My friend VS's dad (ES) is in Vancouver, WA for chemo/rad treatments. He's been kind of alone up there, away from the Winston Menno. Church people, away from his daughter, etc. That's got to be hard, to stay encouraged and all. VS spent the weekend with me about a month ago, and we went to see ES. But once a month isn't often enough to keep someone encouraged. So I prayed for ES, and hoped there would be some way others could visit.
I mentioned him at Hopewell MC a few weeks back, asking for prayer/visiting of VS's dad. I suppose I didn't have much faith that anyone would follow through on the visiting part... too much to ask, of course. No one at Hopewell even knows ES. The praying I suspected would happen.
But it so happens that MZ lives in Vancouver... got ES's info... and has been visiting him weekly, to the great encouragement and blessing of ES. And he even brought ES to Hopewell MC for church on Sunday. It is, in reality, more than I asked for. Definitely more than I had faith for... And God once again has shown his love for each of his children, by working out the details.
He also reminds me to have more faith. I almost didn't mention ES at church that Sunday.
God also worked another miracle for me over the weekend, in a situation that I pray he will continue to move in and give me wisdom for.
I thought of the parting of the Red Sea story in a different way than ever before. For some reason I never realized that God actually plotted, schemed to get the Israelites into what looked like a humanly impossible situation... in order to demonstrate his glory before the Egyptions/Israelites. God actually brought the Israelites up to the Sea, to a place from which they could not, theoretically, easily escape. Instead of immediately opening a pathway through the Sea, God had them wait as the Egyptians came toward them. Then, of course, the Israelites complained, and God started blowing the waters back with a wind. In the meantime, it seems that a dark cloud kept the Egyptians from realizing that this was going on, and kept the Egyptians from attacking the Israelites. And you know the rest of the story.
Well, I saw God's hand at work this week... and it made me excited. Almost jumping up and down excited. I guess the story actually goes back a couple weeks.
My friend VS's dad (ES) is in Vancouver, WA for chemo/rad treatments. He's been kind of alone up there, away from the Winston Menno. Church people, away from his daughter, etc. That's got to be hard, to stay encouraged and all. VS spent the weekend with me about a month ago, and we went to see ES. But once a month isn't often enough to keep someone encouraged. So I prayed for ES, and hoped there would be some way others could visit.
I mentioned him at Hopewell MC a few weeks back, asking for prayer/visiting of VS's dad. I suppose I didn't have much faith that anyone would follow through on the visiting part... too much to ask, of course. No one at Hopewell even knows ES. The praying I suspected would happen.
But it so happens that MZ lives in Vancouver... got ES's info... and has been visiting him weekly, to the great encouragement and blessing of ES. And he even brought ES to Hopewell MC for church on Sunday. It is, in reality, more than I asked for. Definitely more than I had faith for... And God once again has shown his love for each of his children, by working out the details.
He also reminds me to have more faith. I almost didn't mention ES at church that Sunday.
God also worked another miracle for me over the weekend, in a situation that I pray he will continue to move in and give me wisdom for.
posted by Claire at 21:47
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