laurabutler - Not About Whether I See

This past month, I have been asking God, "Where are your miracles? Why can't this person be healed? Where are the people being raised from the dead?"

This past summer, I experienced God like never before.

At Teen Challenge, I witnessed healing… the healing of a knee, the healing of an STD, the healing of broken hearts.

This past summer, I also witnessed the healing of my own dad.

I witnessed miracles one after another.

I think I expected everyday of my life from then on to be as eye-opening.

In that season of my life, though, God was building up a faith in me that I had never had before. He was showing me the things that He could do in others and in me.

He was basically shouting,

"Here I am. You can no longer doubt me and turn away from me. You can no longer pretend like I don't exist in EVERY aspect of life, not simply in the parts where you allow me to exist."

He seized my heart.

In this season of my life, though, He is teaching me patience.

He is teaching me to trust Him… to trust that He can do anything, to trust that He works in peoples' lives and hearts in ways that I cannot see, to trust that things happen for reasons that I will not always understand, to trust that He moves in His own timing.

He has given me a choice.

And I choose in.

I choose to believe that God heals even when I don't see the immediate results.

I choose to walk in the fact that God plants seeds in the hearts of children when I show them His love in the classroom.

I choose to KNOW that God can move mountains.

I choose to have faith.

"We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come away with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond."

The SAME God that came as a man, died on the cross, and rose again lives today.