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JUST BELIEVE: Part 1
Jan 29, 2016
I am trying to find my footing where believing in God’s promises is concerned. Nana shared a video with me of a man whom God showed his daughter when he was 15 years old. After getting married and trying to conceive (and failing) the couple began to wonder and question the promise God gave to them. Long story short, it turns out the daughter that God showed them was a daughter they adopted.
It was a beautiful story, it made me
tear up; it was admirable how they hung on to God’s promise even in the midst
of all that disappointment. After I watched the video, I thought to myself:
what a beautiful, but depressing story. God gave this guy a promise and the guy
and his wife interpreted the promise one way but God fulfilled it in a
different way. Dare I say, he fulfilled it in a way that was (in my opinion) a
bit unsatisfactory. God did fulfill his promise: that he’d have a daughter
named Chloe, with olive skin, but that daughter was not the fruit of his own
body. Does the child make it less theirs because it was through another woman?
Nope. Perhaps that is something to explore in a different post. But this story made me realize something. I
realize that sometimes God’s promises
are almost allegorical. They go beyond the obvious words that he gives you. In
the case of the video, this man was given a vision of his daughter, and the
name of the child; but it turns out this child was one they would adopt. Obviously
there is a tinge of disappointment there. I assume God didn’t tell him, “the
fruit of your womb will produce this beautiful child named Chloe.” The man and
his wife read INTO what God’s promise was, rather than reading out of it.
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