Honestly...

Honestly, lately I have not been motivated to get much work done on the adoption.  Rather than thinking about the child, I am thinking about all the endless amount of paperwork we have to do.  I get overwhelmed.  I know there is an orphan waiting for us to bring them home, and I am so eager to parent them, but it seems like there is the obstacle of paperwork in the way.

There are many things that God is teaching me through this, but here is one reminder I had yesterday: I need to be faithful with little first, before God will entrust me to be faithful with much.  Luke 16:10 says,

"One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much."

And Mathew 25:21 says,

^"His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.  You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'"

For me, this means that I need to be faithful to get the paperwork done in a timely manner.  How can God see me as being faithful to parent a child when I am not faithful with this work?  How can I expect myself to work harder when a child comes, if I can't work hard now in the meantime?  I understand that not every parent feels like they are completely faithful and ready before a child comes into their lives, and that is where God's grace comes in.  He gives us grace to be faithful in spite of our weakness and failures.  Praise God for His grace!


And here is another verse, I Corinthians 10:31:

"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

So, I can do endless amounts of paperwork "to the glory of God"?  Yes!  Everything we do should be done to the glory of God, including paperwork and parenting!  In the long periods of waiting for information about a child, even waiting can be done to the glory of God!


 So, I will "press on" (Phil 3:14) to complete our dossier.  In fact, God was gracious to me today, and I was able to get a bunch of forms filled out and letters written.  I pray that in the end of the getting all the paperwork done, God can say to me, "Well done, good and faithful servant.  You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much."  And even more so, I pray He says the same after my children have grown into, prayerfully, God-fearing adults.


What are you doing to the glory of God?  Would God say that you are faithful with the little things right now?


Just some thoughts to think about, and that are good for me to ask myself.