"When God removes something from our lives, it's not because he's trying to take away something good. It's because he's trying to make room for something better."
I made this comment on my facebook and twitter page a while back and was amazed at the response I received. Many people wrote to tell me that this was exactly what they felt God doing in their lives at the present moment. I had to share this inspirational story with you. Here is Natasha's story of how God has been at work in her and her family's lives. Blessings!
So in regards to this quote, I had just sent an email to someone minutes before you posted this in regards to something I was eliminating from my life. I felt very strongly that God wanted more of my attention on being a mom and learning the best way to do that and in order to, I needed to walk away from this "side job" I had been doing. I had been selling skincare and make up on the side to earn a little extra money. For awhile it was really nice but at this point in the game I really felt God saying that's enough for now, I want your focus on your main job and that is raising these kids in Godly home. And also learning how to become a Godly mom and wife. He closed that door with the extra job and I was okay with that. Now He is revealing more ways for me to better learn how to be just what He has called me to be. I am participating in a class on parenting which seems so fitting for me right now and I also just stepped up and took on a leadership position with MOPs at Thornapple Valley Church, another step in helping me to learn more about being a Godly mom and wife.
But it's not just that. There have been several things over the last couple of years that God has shown us that when He closes one door it's usually because He has something better planned for us. Tom, my husband, lost two different jobs over a year ago. He was unemployed after losing the second job for almost a year. It was such a tough tough time. There were days when I just couldn't understand why we had to go through this. We had two young kids that we could barely provide for and it was one of the hardest times I think I have gone through this far in my life. I had times of doubt, anger, and confusion, but we learned so much through all of that season in our lives. God was always there. He had a bigger plan that at the time, one that I couldn't see. Tom was able to go back to school only because he lost his job and now almost two years later he is an amazing job as a computer technician. This is a very long story, one that I could go on about forever, but long story short God used that very tough time to bring us to where we are now. Looking back, I would not change it because we learned so much and are so much better for it now. We learned how to trust God more as He came through time and time again. Things are not perfect financially for us and probably never will be. We got into some pretty major debt over the first few years of our marriage and then things got even worse with Tom out of work. Today for the first time in a very long time we are paying off debts and seeing light at the end of the tunnel and it feels so good.
I just have to say, obeying God is always the best way. I followed what I felt Him calling me to do by giving up my little extra job and now three weeks after doing so and focusing on my job as a mom, we are more comfortable now financially than we have been in a long long time! God is so good!!!
I thank God for knowing what I can't always see, and for always having a plan even when I may not know what he plan is or looks like. He is faithful and He will provide if we are faithful!!
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