Peculiar People See The
Promise
I recently went to see the
movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green. The movie definitely had an impact on
me. I planned to write about it. However, I could not find the biblical
reference of comparison. As my pastor has taught us, view what we see through
spiritual eyes. I waited until I could see it.
On Friday evening, my pastor
spoke to the women and it hit me. Not right away. It didn’t hit until Saturday
night. I guess the words were still marinating upon my heart.
Now my heart is fluttering,
because I have the word that God wants me to share. So here it is…
In the movie, a wonderful
couple have been unable to have a biological child. What
was odd to me in the movie, although they had not conceived, they had a nursery
set-up. Wow! What faith! Finally, the doctor gives the report; the couple will
not have a child of their own seed.
They go home to grieve. The
wife ends her cry in the nursery, and tells her husband they are moving on.
Well husband is not ready. For one more night, they talk about what kind of
child they would have, if they could have one. The couple makes a list as they
speak. Clearly they are writing down the vision and making it plain. Habakkuk 2:2
They write down each
characteristic of their unborn child on a small notepad. Then they put those
notes into a wooden box; go out into the garden to bury it. I saw this as a
sign of putting the circumstance to rest – but not their hope.
Lo and behold, they put the
seed in the ground. That night, the rains came (only anointing their house) and
out of the earth comes a little boy, Timothy Green. Good God Almighty!
My pastor’s message from
Friday spoke to me. She spoke of how God had given the Virgin Mary a promise, as
well as Abram and Sarai. Looking at the systematic way babies come into
the world, it doesn’t seem that a virgin would deliver, or that an elderly
barren woman would also. It’s peculiar, it’s odd or strange. It just doesn’t
happen that way. However, we are a peculiar people…1 Peter 2:9
What brings the seeds to life
in the midst of the peculiar? The answer is living in faith. And this is what
has hit me, if we live in faith, and agree with His promise, God can create the
peculiar. Since HE created the system in the first place, He can shift things,
add variables, cause the odd, and strange things to have life.
I am learning if God has
given me vision and promised me the odd and peculiar, all I have to do is
believe, trust Him in faith and declare that it will be done unto me, according
to His will for my life. God knows the plans He has for you and I. He knows
what He is doing. Jeremiah 29:11. Will you live in faith and trust Him?
Grace and Peace,
Brook Lynn Dorcent, Author
Missing the Mark (Novel)
Pressing Toward the Mark
(Novel)
Spirit Over Will (Devotional)
