I am 33 years old man. I don’t know
how many men are out there dream of being a father. I am one of them, I
remember enjoying working in the nursery at church as a teen and playing with
my nieces and nephews as they grew up, now that the oldest is 21 and the
youngest is junior or senior in high school, they have all grown up, I still
had not become a parent.
God has blessed me with not having
that connection to my ex wives or even ex girlfriends. My wife being a few
years older then me has been wanting to be a mother for a very long time. We
both had been dreaming of the day that we would have a child to raise and
teach. Finally yesterday we heard our first baby’s heart beat. As we listened,
it sunk in more and more that this is finally real. God blessed us in his
timing. One of the funniest things we experienced was when we were first
getting married my wife told me and God that she wanted one year as just the
two of us and it looks like we will be married about a year and a half when our
baby arrives.
During this time I graduated from
University and started to look for work during the first few weeks of looking
for work all my unemployment runs out and I have no income and I start to worry
and start looking for any work out there. At this time we are surviving and
continuing to seek God’s plan when it comes to my work, and the dream my wife
has to being a stay at home mother.
Through our joyful tears of hearing
the new life inside my wife’s body, the doctor explains that we may be further
along then we thought and they want to do a few things to determine if we are
correct or if we are further along then we think. God works in ways that are so
unknown to us some times and the time that God has set for our baby to join our
family will be perfect for all the needs that we have in our lives.
We Recently listened to the
teachings of Steven Furtick as a guest speaker at Fresh Life Church in Montana,
the title of his message was “Don’t stop on six” using the story of Joshua and
the walls of Jericho to teach that we are to keep taking the steps that God
calls us to take even if we don’t see progress. This is the struggle we are in
now. You may call it trials, tribulations, or testing’s, but we are continually
trying to walk that path each day God has laid before us, in faith we walk even
though we don’t see the walls crumbling a little here and a little there as we
go.
As
we continue walking we get to the “six” the number of man, six is the point
that we can still feel that something we did made an affect on the outcome. But
the whole point is having the faith to continue to seven. Seven being the
number of completion and that is where God calls us to go. Don’t stop on six,
just because you don’t see any progress be faithful and keep it up and one day
when you least expect it God will tumble those walls down and there will be
break though, chains broken, and captive set free from the bondage that the
evil one has convinced you that there is no escape from. There is freedom you, you just have to have the faith to keep following God directions even when it does not make sense.
God
calls us all to use the platforms we have in our lives to share his love, those
platforms are made of our life situations. Always praise God in all situations,
this does not mean that we have to like what is going, but we can praise God and
thank God for what will come from it. Just look at the life of Job I’m sure he
didn’t like the situation that he was in but I would not speak against God. We
need to do the same, I may not like my current job and it does not pay well or
have good insurance, but God has placed me there to serve him by serving
others. I may also have a lesson to learn working with the people I do or the
people I have to serve.
I
always need the reminder to listen for the breeze and watch out for the 2x4,
just like many Christians out there I too can find myself becoming complacent
and stop reading the word and keeping my focus where it should be. Don’t stop
at six, don’t stop when you think you are done keep going until those walls
fall and God wins the battle. Waiting for God to topple the wall is one of the
hardest lessons in a New Life with Christ, my dream of becoming a father could
have been awesome any time in the last 10 years but God knows when its the right
time and with the right people to set you free or give you a blessing you have
been crying out for.
