A Better Plan

Dear family, friends and blog-followers, I am both excited and grateful to be able to begin posting again to the blog I started just two weeks before my surgery.  I knew it would be an adventure that would challenge my faith but in my wildest imagination did not foresee the scope, depth or duration of the journey that was ahead.

Today, a friend in our church life group came by for a visit and was talking about the ways God answers prayer.  We’ve often been told that He always answers the prayer of faith, but His answer may be, “Yes,” “No,” or, “Wait.”  But she shared an insight which I had not heard before that, I believe, more accurately reflects the true character of our loving heavenly Father.  At the end of a recent sermon  our pastor David Chadwick said that God’s answer may be, “Yes,” “Wait,” or “I have a better plan.”  Instead of the blunt sounding "No", He who has our good in mind has the best plan for us, even though we may never fully understand it this side of eternity.

Rather than the four-day stay in the hospital I was expecting, I awakened after ten days and discovered I had a long way to go.  We had prayed fervently for a quick recovery – that was what we wanted.  In His better plan, however, a longer recovery was now clearly His choice.  We don’t know why, but that’s why it’s a faith adventure.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God.  Heb 11:6a