He Is Moving

The grace of God is incredible. It's far greater than anything I have ever experienced. When we are still, unable to move because the weight of this world is too great for us, he is moving. When we feel numb because we have taken all that we feel we can handle, he is already moving and working. When the end seems dark and hopeless and no where in arms reach, he is there moving. He knows the outcome before the situation even begins. He knows all that we have and will endure before it begins. Honestly, he knew our story before the creation of this world even began.
The amazing, humbling, and most glorious thing to think about is the fact that before I was even thought of in this world, he knew my name. He knew that I would grow up in a Christian home and still endure the temptations of this world. He knew that I would struggle with heartache and feel unwanted by people I loved. He knew that I would desire to be a wife and a mom before a career. He knew that I would fall down and lose my way and do things that would break his heart. And yet, despite knowing all those things, he chose me anyway. He chose me before the creation of this world to make me his child.
While I was wandering lost and feeling hopeless, he was there waiting for me to throw up my hands and cry out to him for help. When I felt like all my dreams had come crashing down, and I had flushed them out of my life and there was nothing left, he was moving. He was working in the life of someone else. Someone else who was going through hard times and wandering on their own path. He was orchestrating the greatest moment of both of our lives, and we were completely oblivious to it. While he was moving in our lives we began to move closer to him. Each of us had thrown up our hands and cried out to him to take control of our lives. We reached the realization that we, on our own, are not enough to make it through this life. It's messy, complicated, trivial, heart wrenching, difficult, and the sun-shining days tend to be outweighed by the gloomy ones. But with him and his strength and his guidance it also can be beautiful, clear, purposeful, and joyous.
He showed us just how gracious and loving and exact he is. Our lives were joined together August 10, 2013 and we know without a shadow of a doubt that God was orchestrating the whole thing from the time we met til the time we said "I do." God was moving in our lives then, and he is moving in our lives now. I don't wish that our pasts didn't exist because it is a part of who we are. Sure not all of it was pleasant, but I may not be here now writing this if it wasn't for it. I may not be married and head over heals in love with my best friend if it wasn't for the mistakes that I made that caused me to move down here in the first place.
He is moving, in our lives and all around us. We can see it when we are still and not trying to control everything. We can witness the miracles that he does around us when we are more focused on him rather than on our own lives and agendas we have.
He is moving and working, and I hope you have experienced it yourself. It will take your breath away.