We will fight for you!

Today began with the hope that we would have pictures and video of our son, that our case worker would have wonderful heart felt touching stories to share with us about meeting him. That she would be able to tell us of his smile when he received our gifts. All of this OUR PLAN.

But God had a different plan in mind. Instead we received news this afternoon that our beautiful boy was not seen by our case worker, she had no stories of his sweet smiling face, no pictures to share with us. This is because our son lives 1,000 miles outside the capital city, in what they call a "confilict zone". This made it impossible for our case worker to travel to him. Not only that but because of where his orphanage is located we are told that we can expect to add an additional 3-6 (most likely 6) months to our adoption process. You see, it is hard to get information in and out of where he is, and with the recent changes the DRC has made to their adoption procedures they expect it to take even longer.

At the very beginning of this process God laid a very specific verse on my heart for our son.

Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes!

As I was listening to our case worker today this verse just kept coming to mind. As much as I want to be discouraged and upset at the idea of missing another 6 months of our precious boys life I know that God will fight for him. God fought for us by sending his son, and he fights for us every day!

We cannot wait to see God work before our very eyes and fight for our son, just as he fights for us! We were so thankful to find out that our son is in an orphanage run by a wonderful christian woman and her husband who is a pastor, and that they were able to hand deliver our special gifts to our sweet boy!

verse 31 and 32 go on to say: and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. But even after all he did, you refused to trust the LORD your God" 

I pray that we do not get so lost in this process as we worry about this peice of paperwork and that peice of paperwork that we miss what God is trying to teach us in the process. That our eyes would be open to the work he is doing, and that we would allow him to use us to tell his story of how he fights for us! And we pray that we would learn to trust God more every day as he works before our very eyes!