Fitting Isn't It?

It is way easier to trust when things look good.

We are selling our house...ahh trying to selling our house. It has been tough. It doesn't make any sense to me. But lots of stuff isn't making sense lately. We have so many things in the last year that "should" have turned out so differently. So "abnormal" that is must be divine. God must have a plan that makes even the stuff that seems weird, right. If pain is brought from something that "shouldn't" have happened perhaps it is suppose to? I get that this sounds simple. I get that this sounds like it makes sense, but it is super hard to trust as you set about your everyday. Especially when lots of hard things are happening at the same time.

God has a history of making glorious things happen by using people or situations that didn't seem like they would be the right fit.

Peter didn't seem to get the stuff that Jesus was trying to teach. Yet Jesus called him the Rock. I wonder if Peter was like..."don't you mean sand? The stuff you say just seems to slip right through." Moses didn't want to be a leader yet he followed God and trusted Him to do wonderful things through him. I'm sure it didn't seem to fit that the Pharoh's adopted son would be the one so help the Jewish people. God had the Savior of the world come from a tiny, unknown town. No wonder people asked "is this the carpenter's son?" Didn't seem to fit. Saul persecuted believers before he became Paul, a warrior for Christ. I bet that didn't settle well. And for goodness sakes...Abraham couldn't have kids and was told his descendants would out number the stars. Of course he had trouble believing that and took things into his own hands.

With all these examples why should I be surprised that my life doesn't seem to fit the idea of what I thought God would need for me to be His servant? I thought He would need me to be well spoken. I thought He would need me to be well organized. I thought He would need me to be calm. I thought He would need me to be showered...well that one is probably important. But really He doesn't need me at all. God allows us to bring Him glory. He doesn't need me to do it. But He allows me to feel joy from talking about Him. He allows me to feel peace by believing in Him. He allows me to bring Him glory by seeing the work He does in my life.

So perhaps if I focus on these things, it will be easier to trust He will use, all these things that don't seem to fit, to bring Him glory. No matter how I think it looks I can see how He uses each day to bring glory to Himself. And really that is a promise I can always trust. So to my house not selling and my family being a mess...I say Ehh...and trust God to work in the things that don't seem to fit.