“But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it” Romans 8:25
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”.
“Good things take time and great things take even longer”
we hope…..we wait
I read a devotional today by Chuck Swindoll in this book The Finishing Touch
I am anxious about what the end product will be, the unseen if you will. As I am getting ready to “plan out” our high school years I am overwhelmed with the unknown of how it will turn out. I can go by the advice of hundreds who have gone before me who say “It will be fine”. But deep, deep inside I still have that fear of failing.
But today’s verse really reminded me that we are not only to hope…and wait we also persevere. And, not to mention, that we are hoping and waiting on God. He will get me through this; he will help me persevere through my “unseens”. He has always been there for me. I have been able to look back and see how he has carried me through. Now, I am facing new “unseens”:
High school- oh that’s a big one. I am taking on what some institutions are not able to get right.
Dyslexia- Almost just as big, if not bigger because I will eventually have to deal with dyslexia AND homeschooling.
Those are my two biggies right now. Not to mention diabetes, celiac disease and a host of other things that I can’t control or see what lies ahead for my children.
But I love that verse. “We hope…we wait”
The second part of this devotion reminded me that I am building ROME. I am taking on a huge task and I have to remind myself that it was not built in a day. I may not see “progress” or even “growth” in a day, a week, a month…but I am building ROME. For my son, I started in 1st grade. For my daughter, I started in 4th grade. I am still building!
And like Rome, I am still being built! I am still a work in progress. I need to continue to grow and build so I can become my spiritual ROME.
And then finally, good things take time and great things take even longer.
My children are great things…I am not going to short change them. I am going to pour everything I have into them. I am going to speak God’s work to them, over them, in them, all over them. I know that I can’t decide their fate, but I am going to pour into them all I’ve got so that God use that sacrifice and make beautiful things out of them. Like Rome.
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