A year and a half ago, when we were in the midst of the worst time with mom's illness, a sweet girl gave me the verse - Habakkuk 1:5. It reads "The LORD replied, "Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you about it.' What's funny about this is that it spoke truth. None of me believed that something 'new' was happening. In my eyes, I saw sadness, anxiety, endings, devastation. God, on the other hand, was aligning events that all led to the path that we are on now. I didn't see that selling mom's house and downsizing our own would result in that fact that God was moving us to Asheville. He knew it would be quick, and we wouldn't have time to accomplish everything; So, God took care of it in advance.
Our pastor just preached a sermon and mentioned, 'the just shall live by faith.' Sometimes you never know the meaning of living by faith until you walk a road - and you can't see where you are going. God certainly helped me to understand walking without seeing this past year. The difference in my anxiety and peace was trust. Why couldn't I trust that God was working things out? Why couldn't I have confidence that He was in this for me? Because I was walking by sight.
The blessing is that God is merciful. In my lack of faith, He still accomplished His purpose. Why? #1 - He is God. #2 - I believe that in His graciousness, He knew my husband and I wanted to do what He wanted for us. We happened to exercise and tiny bit of faith. The Lord Himself tells us that if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.(Math 17:20) I don't know about you, but I saw what God accomplished with a little bit of faith. Could you imagine what He could do with a mustard seed of faith? A whole mountain would move! Jesus ends that verse with the words - 'Nothing would be impossible.'
What are the possibilities of 'Nothing would be impossible?' Maybe it's time to ask God to move mountains. He may just be doing something you wouldn't believe - even if someone told you about it...Shouldn't we exercise our faith more?
