Day 213 ~ Tuesday

So we are at Bread Co ( Panera to anyone who lives outside of St. Louis) for lunch.  A guy with a brace and a cane sits down behind us.  Donna saw him first and then I turned around.  Did we go pray for him... No, we did not.  It's nice to know that I am not the only chicken out there! LOL

While I was sitting at my daughter's gymnastics class I was reading Covenant magazine.  It is put out by Jesse and Cathy DuPlantis' ministry.  I just love their sense of humor about the things of the Lord.  They put things in such plain terms that anyone can get it.  The article was about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, otherwise known as... Superhero of Faith, Average Joe, and Slick Willie. 

I'd like to think that I am a superhero of faith... well let me back up a second...

Earlier today I was thinking to myself, "Wow, all these people come to you every week and ask you to believe with them and pray with them for God to move in their lives.  I must have some really great faith cause God seems to be answering my prayers.  I know it isn't cause of anything I have done, I just believe Him." 

Let me tell ya' I was feeling pretty good about that today!

Satan always tries to come and steal the very thing that God has planned for us to do:

When I was 5 years old, my faith was the first thing I kicked out the window.  I prayed my heart out for this Cabbage Patch Doll for my birthday.  I begged and pleaded and prayed ... and I didn't get it.  So at that moment I figured out that it seemed that I never got what I asked for from God but I always seemed to get what I didn't want to happen the most.  My brilliant 5 year old mind decided from that point on that I would pray the opposite of something I really wanted to get what it was that I wanted out of God.  Yes,  I was trying to manipulate GOD!  I know that sounds hilarious, but that was the best my 5 year old brain could do.

So back to Superhero Abraham, Average Isaac, and Slick Jacob...
As I was reading this article I found myself much more like Average Isaac and Slick Jacob than I did Superhero Abraham! --- Ahhhh, Pride always comes before the fall!

Isaac was afraid... a lot.  There isn't much written about what he did because he didn't do much.  He reasoned things out to himself a lot which meant that he wasn't really walking by faith much.

Jacob was double-minded and was always seeing what he could get away with.  How far could he go before he got punished.  He wrestled with God til he had a permanent limp!  While he was a tenaciously hard worker and was always willing to jump out of the boat so to speak, he didn't always have the purest heart about what he was doing.  

Reading that article tonight was extremely humbling and really opened my eyes to some of the things I need to work on so that I can be the Superhero of Faith that God has called me to be.  To call the things that be not as though they already are.  To walk on water.  To see the lame walk and the blind see and the mute speak and the deaf hear.  To set the captives free and preach the gospel to all the world!  

Thanks Father for opening my eyes up!