Recently a sweet young lady in recovery reached out to me. As a result of her difficulties, she had lost everything including her children. She would soon have the opportunity to go to court to get her little boy back. Sadly, her family has all but given up on her. But God had not. And He is restoring her life.
I was reflecting about how, even though it doesn't seem like it, God has everything under control. What her family saw as hopeless, God saw as possible. What her family saw as broken, God saw as whole. And in God’s perfect timing, God is transforming her story into a beautiful story of redemption.
We can't even begin to see all that he is doing behind the scenes as he hears our hearts cry for our loved one and answers those prayers. His ways are not our ways. And his timing is not always our timing. But in His absolute perfect timing, He WILL make everything beautiful again.
These words are our hope.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT
[11] Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart. but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
August 16, 2018 Our Prayer for our Loved One today:
Lord we come before you today, filled with questions, with fears, at times with resignation. We come to you looking for peace, for hope. And we thank you that your word gives us that hope. We believe that you have made everything perfectly and wonderfully. Lord, we believe that you have planted eternity in (our loved one's) heart. That you created (him/her) with a desire for you and your love. We know that in your perfect time (our loved one) will discover that desire, will choose abundance over desperation, will choose life over death. And we believe that in your perfect time (he/she) will once again become bright and beautiful and all that you have created (our loved one) to be. Lord, we can’t begin to imagine all you are doing in (our loved one's) life right now. We can't see the big picture, the whole scope of your work. But Lord, we stand on your promises and we choose trust instead of fear, hope where there is none and love above all else. We thank you that you can make our life bright and beautiful as well. We pray these things in your son's precious name! Amen!
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