I got to talking to my son this week about his future. He mentioned how he’s feeling lost. That he’s hit a point in his job where he feels like he’s stuck. Where does he go next? And, will he be able to move forward if and when he has a plan?
I think we all have that feeling of uncertainty from time to time. Wondering what we’ll do next. Wondering where God will lead. Wondering how things could possibly change when all we’ve been given are the two hands that we’ve got. Longing to succeed, yet not having the power to do so.
And then I open my Bible to Nehemiah, where I find a man with nothing but a passion and prayer. A man whose passion for change ran so deep that he wept and mourned and fasted for days.
The Bible tells us that he was a cupbearer to the King. He wasn’t a king himself, he wasn’t the captain of a large army, he didn’t have the necessary resources at his disposal to rebuild Jerusalem, but he had faith in a God Who moves mountains.
Because of the gracious hand of God, Nehemiah found favor with the king and was given everything he needed to start rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls.
I think sometimes we forget that the same God who hung the moon and the stars in the sky is able to not only meet our needs but do exceedingly abundantly more than we ask or think. We tend to forget that the same God who created man has the power to open doors at a moments notice and soften hearts.
And so, as Nehemiah, we trust in a God who is able, not for the means of financial gain, but that by His gracious and compassionate hand, we might fulfill our God-given purpose.
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Darlene Schacht and her husband Michael live in Manitoba Canada where the summers are beautiful and the winters are cold. Together they’ve come to learn that relationships aren’t always easy, but that marriage, the way God intended it to be, is a treasure worth fighting for.
She began her publishing journey about twelve years ago when she pioneered one of the first online magazines for Christian women, known at the time as “Christian Women Online Magazine.” After three years, Darlene left CWO to blog as a solo author at Time-Warp Wife Ministries.
It was also during this transition that she worked alongside actress Candace Cameron Bure to write the NYT Best-Selling book, Reshaping it All: Motivation for Spiritual and Physical Fitness. Reshaping it All was the winner of both the 2011 USA Best Book Awards and the 2012 Christian Reading Retailers Choice Awards.
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Darlene Schacht
The Time-Warp Wife