What if that dream you have been dreaming never comes true?
What if you never get that husband or wife you have been praying for?
What if you never have children?
What if you never get that job you wanted?
What if that person never comes back?
Is God enough?
Here lately I have been thinking a lot about my husband. Praying for him daily. Talking to God about him. Talking to my team about Him. And I have been asked the question a lot in the last two months, “what if a husband isn’t in Gods plans for you Michaella?” I would get defensive and be like “oh no God has promised me a husband.”
These last few days of Haiti I have thought more about it, took it to God, and on Sunday morning during worship God began to speak to me.
He brought to mind Abraham and Isaac once again. This is one of my favorite stories. After, finally, having the very child He prayed for, God asked for Abraham to give Isaac back in sacrifice. I could imagine Abraham being heart broken and maybe at one point being like “why God? Why did you bother to give Him to me when you were just gonna take him back?” But the revelation God has given me in this story made me understand His heart for us so much more.
You see it wasn’t Isaac that God wanted….it was Abraham. He wanted all of Abrahams heart. God didn’t want Abraham to put Isaac before Him. He wanted Abrahams obedience. So when Abraham raised his hand to sacrifice his son, when the Lord saw the condition of Abrahams heart, saw that God was first, the Lord stopped him, and provided another sacrifice.
This is exactly what God desires of us as well. To have our whole hearts. Our dreams and desires turned over to Him completely. To give them up and be obedient to him. His heart is for us, not against us.
Jeremiah? ?29:11-13? says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” ?
During that time of worship Sunday I understood God’s heart for me. I cried out and told my Father, “You Are Enough Lord. You are my everything, I give You this dream because without you in it, it will be nothing.” You see God doesn’t want me or you walking around so focused on the promise, that we loose sight of the Promise Maker. We have to know that those things would be nothing without God in them. If He isn’t in it, then what is the point in having it? It will fail without Him in it and His hand upon it.
So If I never have a husband. If I never have children. If my dreams never come true. God will always be enough. He will never leave me nor forsake me. He will always be with me wherever I go. He will always give me exactly what I need because He is faithful. God has never let me down and He never will. I can trust Him. God is the only one who can fill every place of my heart because He created it and knows it better than anyone, and the same goes for you.
He knows you better than anyone ever will. He wants your whole heart. He wants every dream and desire. What are you holding onto? What area of your heart have you not turned over to Him?
I’ll ask you again….is God enough?
“When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.”
??Genesis? ?22:9-13? ?
