(Silence is broken)

1 Corinthians 13:9-12

⁹ Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! ¹⁰ But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

Over the last 10 months we have been trying to sell our house in Murray. We had calls and a few close buys but each seemed to lead to a disappointing end. I prayed and sought God's face on the matter of selling the house. As I searched the scripture I tried to let God show me in the scripture things and not let my search for answers get in the way. If you have no idea what I am talking about I will give you an example:

• With selling the house on my mind I look through Psalm 20. As I scam across it I see verse 4..."May he grant your heart’s desires and make all your plans succeed." All of a sudden I see the answer that "I" am looking for. I pray and he will grant me the desires of my heart AND my plans will succeed. So human translation...If I pray God will answer and since I want to sell it now he will make that plan succeed. Now the real translation would be ... If I seek God I will want his will in my life not my own. Answers to prayer will be in his timing and not mine. So this is the example I was talking about.

I thought well maybe God is trying to teach me something. Like I need to have faith or I needed to be patient. Maybe it was that I needed to trust him. Those answers were so evident that I understood those. I just knew there was more to this. Over time I began to see it. God was teaching me how to be sympathetic and have empathy for people. How so you might ask? Well I was always one to help people see that times like this were to teach us patience, faith and trust. What I needed to be doing is helping them bear that burden. I needed to be there and listen to them. I needed to pray for them and answer only the questions they had instead of giving them my opinion. If I did not know the answer it was OK to tell them I didn't. After realizing this the light switch turned on.

Well to make this post a bit briefer I will rush on. Our house sold Friday and now we have all our business officially done in Murray. Or focus can be totally on us in Owensboro. God came through in a powerful way and I give him praise for it! I praise him for everything not just selling the house. I praise him for EVERYTHING.

The above scripture came to me this morning. As I studied it I began to see what I was truly seeing weeks ago. I saw everything through a clouded mirror. Although I could see that God was going to work I didn't know how. Now on the other side of this I see how he was completely in control. He did this in a small silent whisper saying "I will take care of you".

(Side note - Read Buffy's blog about our blessing as well. Click Here . I had been reading the verses posted on my previous post. She had no idea at the time. But God was telling her "I will take care of you". Both of us hadn't shared this with each other until after the house selling. He was telling us the same thing in different ways. Praise him!)