A couple of months ago, I heard a great sermon on Gideon. The simplified version of the story goes like this: There were 32,000 Isrealite soldiers who were going to go and fight the Midianites, but God said that was too many soldiers, and so He widdled it down to 10,000, still too many. Still a chance that the people would think that it was them fighting the battle. So once again, He widdled it down. This time to 300 men. 300 men to go out and fight the army of 135,000 Midianite soldiers, that was a ratio of one Israelite to every 450 Midianites! The pastor said that God didn't want to share His glory, that He didn't want the Israelites thinking it was them that defeated the Midianites.
Well, I feel like this is what God is doing with our story, He doesn't want us or anyone else thinking we are the ones bringing our kids home, it is Him and He needs to receive all the glory!! So, we went from thinking we could pay for our adoption on our own to realizing that was just not going to happen. He widdled down our resources as we paid one adoption fee after another and then He gave us two kids so we needed twice the amount of money!
Honestly, we haven't known how God is going to pay our remaining adoption fees, but we have known that He has a plan and we are getting to see more glimpses of that plan and it. is. amazing. Amazing to see Him at work, amazing to be reminded over and over that He loves our kids even more than we do.
Stay tuned as I share some of the glimpses!
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