Thursday, April 15, 2010 COURT DAY
10AM – Our bags are packed (with some very dirty clothes) and we are ready! Court is in one hour so we will wait until our call to go downstairs to meet Iger. John has been walking around the apartment practicing his speech he will give before the judge (I’m just banking on it being so good that I can remain mute.) I’ve got to share the scripture that John “came upon” this morning (he’s been reading through the book of Luke). It’s a parable that Jesus told his disciples so that they should always pray and not give up (something that so many of you have done on our behalf!). It’s about a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, “Grant me justice against my adversary.” For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, “Even though I don’t fear God or care about men. Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming.” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you he will see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Isn’t God’s word amazing and His timing so perfect?
So as we sit here waiting for this worldy judge to hear our case in the next hour and give to us his verdict ….What is faith? We’re still learning but I think we have a greater understanding since beginning our journey. It certainly is not faith in the people who surround us and unlike I once believed, it is NOT based on how much faith I can muster up myself. It is keeping our eyes fixed on the prize which is Jesus Christ himself and knowing that no matter what He is up to, He is in control and He does have a plan in the craziness of all our lives. It’s knowing that he knows us personally and understands that we could never possess enough consistent belief that all things do work out for the good, so he fills us with his Holy Spirit who equips us and enables us to stand up under great stess. It is God in us that helps us to endure, and to be made more like his Son in the process – that’s what “the good” is. Oh, how we hope and pray that God will give us the desires of our hearts, the desire we believe that He placed within us 2 years and 9 months ago when the idea of adopting again began. I have reminded Him that He has quite an audience ready to watch Him show off today. He will not disappoint us (somehow, even if this worldly judges verdict is not in our favor.) At this point, this journey is not only about John’s and my desire to adopt a child but about a 5 year old boy who has not had a fair start in life. Can you imagine the story that Scott Kirill will share one day, standing before a crowd of prospective adoptive families who are wondering if it is worth all the trouble, the finances, the stress of pursuing a little one to add to their family. I know that it is worth it.
10AM – Our bags are packed (with some very dirty clothes) and we are ready! Court is in one hour so we will wait until our call to go downstairs to meet Iger. John has been walking around the apartment practicing his speech he will give before the judge (I’m just banking on it being so good that I can remain mute.) I’ve got to share the scripture that John “came upon” this morning (he’s been reading through the book of Luke). It’s a parable that Jesus told his disciples so that they should always pray and not give up (something that so many of you have done on our behalf!). It’s about a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, “Grant me justice against my adversary.” For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, “Even though I don’t fear God or care about men. Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming.” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you he will see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Isn’t God’s word amazing and His timing so perfect?
So as we sit here waiting for this worldy judge to hear our case in the next hour and give to us his verdict ….What is faith? We’re still learning but I think we have a greater understanding since beginning our journey. It certainly is not faith in the people who surround us and unlike I once believed, it is NOT based on how much faith I can muster up myself. It is keeping our eyes fixed on the prize which is Jesus Christ himself and knowing that no matter what He is up to, He is in control and He does have a plan in the craziness of all our lives. It’s knowing that he knows us personally and understands that we could never possess enough consistent belief that all things do work out for the good, so he fills us with his Holy Spirit who equips us and enables us to stand up under great stess. It is God in us that helps us to endure, and to be made more like his Son in the process – that’s what “the good” is. Oh, how we hope and pray that God will give us the desires of our hearts, the desire we believe that He placed within us 2 years and 9 months ago when the idea of adopting again began. I have reminded Him that He has quite an audience ready to watch Him show off today. He will not disappoint us (somehow, even if this worldly judges verdict is not in our favor.) At this point, this journey is not only about John’s and my desire to adopt a child but about a 5 year old boy who has not had a fair start in life. Can you imagine the story that Scott Kirill will share one day, standing before a crowd of prospective adoptive families who are wondering if it is worth all the trouble, the finances, the stress of pursuing a little one to add to their family. I know that it is worth it.
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