Preparing The Field

I just finished watching the movie "Facing the Giants" for the fourth time! Every time it comes on tv I am drawn to it. I guess because it matches our lives so perfectly. Every time I watch it something new stands out to me and this time it was this quote:

“The Lord will send the rain. You need to prepare your field to receive it.”

I need to prepare my life to accept God's blessings. And that doesn't necessarily mean that he will send a baby... I pray that he will... but that any blessing he is wanting to send I must first prepare myself for it.

So often we pray for something and then sit around and wait for the answer. Instead of that we must pray believing. If we pray for rain we must prepare the fields in anticipation of it.

I truly believe that God will send a child into our lives at some point. Maybe it will be our own flesh and blood, adopted or even a child that has a home but needs someone to love them. I must prepare my body, my house, my life, my heart for that child. All these years that we have been waiting I could have been getting ready!

Anyways, that was my thought this morning. It gives me hope and something to work on as we wait.

Shannon