God is at work in all the kaleidoscoping family transitions; not only in the high points but in the endings, beginning, detours, dead ends, and in-between times. His powerful tools are not just the promotions and graduations but the failures and firings and losses and sicknesses and shocks and periods of boredom. In them all He’s silently, busily, unceasingly encouraging, punishing, shaping…
…And during all His working—all God’s silent activity in the disappointments, surprises, delights, irritations—transformations are taking place…
Do you feel as if nothing is happening…? I guess so does a lobster, encased in that ridiculous armor. As he grows it even gets crowded inside. But he sheds it fourteen times during his first year of life. Each shedding takes ten days, and each time in the periods between shells—when he’s naked, exposed, vulnerable—he grows about seven percent.
You feel stifled, unfulfilled? You don’t know when you’ll break into change?
Wait for God.
Wait on God.
Wait with God.
Life is not fixed. Let it happen; don’t rush it… Keep your eyes fixed on God, live in obedience as you see it, and then just be there.
- Anne Ortlund
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