Discouragement...

Ah, that awful word...discouragement. I was reminded yesterday how satan only has a certain number of tools in his toolbox to use to get Christ's devoted to fall but his number one tool is discouragement. How true that is. I've been sitting in a puddle of discouragement for the past 2 weeks as we here of a possible shut down of Ethiopian adoptions or at best a drastic reduction of adoptions allowed from there. We've been in process for a year now and had sent our dossier over in November with hopes of bringing home beautiful treasure by Christmas but that doesn't seem possible at the moment and discouragement has set in. But...God is bigger than these circumstances and I'm choosing not to allow satan to move any closer to us. From the beginning of this process, my husband and I heard loud and clear from God that this was where He wanted us to go but that the road would be very hard. I believe this is our moment to let go and to allow God to do what he does best, move mountains and answer prayer. So in light of all the pain we are moving forward and trusting him above the words that are flying all over about the state of adoptions in that country. We do believe that their government is genuinely trying to do what they believe is best for the children in need but our prayer continues to be that God will show them his divine heart for adoption and that these precious little ones need a family.

We stand with all those who are process along with us as well those who are fervently praying for these children as well as the officials who are making decisions for them.

"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefor He will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are those who wait for him!" Isaiah 30:18

And so we wait, trusting him who is just and compassionate and whose heart is for the oppressed.

Peace,

Cris