I had a great meeting this morning with my boss at the church where I’m working. We got to dream big about the amazing things God might do in the city of Austin. And even better, for a practical gal like me, we got to plan action steps to begin implementing some of these fantastic dreams.
The number of orphans in the world is overwhelming. The number of children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted just in Travis county is overwhelming. The amount of support that families who adopt need is overwhelming. The world of adoption and foster care is a big big world. There is so much that needs to be done and so many different ways to go about doing it. Sometimes the massiveness of the whole thing is just plain overwhelming, whether you’re thinking about the global orphan crisis or just thinking about fostering one child. The vastness can be paralyzing.
Thankfully, we serve a God who is infinitely bigger than any of these problems. We serve a God who loves the orphan infinitely more than we ever could. We serve a God who is more powerful than anything we can even imagine. And we serve a God who knows, in even greater detail than we do ourselves, just how weak and wicked and wrong-headed we are. He knows this and uses us anyway for the rescue of the defenseless and the glory of His name. Hallelujah!
“Jacob was a cheater, Peter had a temper, David was an adulterer, Noah got drunk, Jonah ran from God, Paul was a murderer, Gideon was insecure, Miriam was a gossiper, Martha was a worrier, Thomas was a doubter, Sarah was impatient, Elijah was moody, Moses stuttered, Zaccheus was short, Abraham was old, and Lazarus was dead...
God doesn't call the equipped, He equips the called!”
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
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