I am feeling encouraged. But in a strange way.... Last weekend my family and I went house hunting, found one we liked, put in an offer, and got accepted. Yay! We thought - finally we will be getting a home and feel like we live here in Florida and we are not on some sort of weird vacation!!
There was a weird feeling in me however. I liked the house - but I did not love it. And I did not have the feeling in me that this was 'the one' that God had for us. I waffled but we didn't have time for that because we needed to put our offer in first and beat the trail of people behind us. While we were in the house too, we found out that we knew them from our church and we called them and said 'hey we like your house!' They canceled the open house for the next day and accepted our offer. All of this seemed like it could be God's leading. And my husband REALLY liked this house. So I prayed with him, and wanted to follow him, and felt a bit better about going ahead with it ... but the nagging feeling that this wasn't it kept pulling on me.
Indeed that feeling was right ... It was not for us... and the offer was unaccepted for various reasons ... and I felt RELIEVED!! I knew it wasn't right ... but I didn't know I could trust my guts to know it because the Lord has been so quiet with me. So I am encouraged to know He is leading this whole process - and we are not shooting in the dark trying to hit the mark ourselves!
The funny thing is the only house I have had my guts tell me was for us we did put an offer on (a couple weeks before this one) but were rejected from that one too. As soon as I walked in it - I felt at home instantly... I thought for sure it was for us ... it had everything we needed and more. My guts told me - this is it. BUT I wonder if God showed that house to us because it IS meant for us... maybe... perhaps? Or if maybe it is the KIND of house we are meant to have and be looking for. Either way - I am glad to know He is leading. And mostly, that I am hearing Him.
Who knew rejection could be so helpful.
He loves you so much. Even the quiet stuff is important - sometimes more so.
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