Life has been a little crazy here lately…
If you have been with me long you have read of our attempt to sell our house… and after having it on the market for a year we chose to take it off the market and refinance. We decided that God obviously wanted us to stay here for a little while longer.
Well the house has been off the market for about eight months and two Saturday’s ago our former realtor calls and says she is on top of our mountain showing houses and the lady with her was wanting to know if we were still interested in selling our house…
Of course we said, Yes.
She wanted to see it right then.
At this point my husband is getting ready to go on night shift and I am at the ballfield with our girls. This showing is coming right after a teaching engagement I had, and my mind and heart had been focused on preparing lessons not cleaning our house.
The house was a wreck.
The rugs hadn’t been vacuumed in days so dog hair was every where. The floors had not been mopped in forever… we had been running crazy for the past month and plus I had been sick. Laundry was on every clean flat surface. The tub and the closet were full of dirty clothes and towels, not one bed was made, the sink was full of dirty dishes, my husband counted eighteen pairs of shoes scattered through out the house…
I mean it was bad.
But I said, “sure it’s a mess, but go right ahead”
The following Monday we got the call that they wanted to see it again.
So that night I cleaned the house. But I did not get into the frantic crazy clean that I had put myself through when in it was the market for a year… I just did what I had planned on doing that Monday anyway just to get things caught back up from the backburner place I had put it on. I realized that if they wanted to come back after seeing it the past Saturday anything I got done would be an amazing improvement 🙂
So me and my girls head out for lunch while this couple checks out our house again.
After lunch we head to Book-a-Million so my Shelby can use a gift card that she has had since Christmas and while we are searching for a book we get the call.
I suppose that the others in Books-a-Million probably thought we were crazy invaders from outer somewhere because I am on my knees in the middle of the store floor giving my thanks and praise to my God and my girls are jumping up and down and holding hands as they sing “they want our house! they want our house!”
Boom out of no where life gets flipped and change enters the equation of life once again.
And in this change comes the opportunity to choose to trust in the Word of God or not…
The moment the news of the house selling settles down I begin to doubt…
what if we pack our whole house up,
find a place we absolutely love,
and then they back out and decide they don’t want the house…
Oh ye of little faith.
Trusting in God’s sovereignty is easy from the pew… it’s a little harder from the kitchen 🙂
Many plans are in a man’s heart
But the counsel of the LORD will stand
Proverbs 19:21
Here is the thing… what if we do pack the whole house up and find a place we absolutely love and then they decide they don’t want our house and back out of the contract… if that were to happen would I be willing to stop and believe…
Whether for correction,
or for His world,
or for His lovingkindness,
He causes it to happen.
Job 37:13
Either I believe in the sovereignty of God or I don’t. Either I believe the Word of God is indeed the word of God or I don’t… the Word of God is either just another title for the Holy Bible to me or it is indeed the God breathed syllables of life.
How I obey it, trust in it, seek it, rely on it, treasure it… shows how I really feel about it.
Will I trust Him in all of life… or just pull from His book when it suits me?
All of life is a test.
Will I choose to trust God in the pew and in the kitchen.
Will I choose to believe in His sovereign will and plan even when the little things in life don’t make sense and don’t go the way I seemed so sure they would go?
Will I seek His will in the little every day things or just call on Him when I think “I can’t handle this one”
Today I choose to trust Him
with the unreturned phone calls,
with the delayed dates set,
with the overslepts and completely forgots
with the packed the whole house up and they just backed outs
and
with the returned phone calls
with the quickly confirmed dates set
with the up on time and out the door and remembered it alls
with the moving everything out and in to the new place God has planned for us…
I choose to trust God with it all… when I don’t like it and when I do. I will submit to His will and His authority and His purpose and His plan and I will seek Him in His Word to help us make sense of it all along the way.
Because He is good.
Always.