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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Is Anything too Hard for the Lord?

Woke up this morning, thinking "3 days late, might as well test". I go some months without testing at all, but sometimes I feel different, and since I'm going camping all weekend, there's no time like the present.  As per usual, this (below) is what I see. (FYI. this is from Google)


This is probably the 30th + time I have seen this answer in the last 2 years, but sometimes I remember to keep my focus fully on God, and I remember to pray before I test for Him to guard my heart no matter what the test result is. He listened, and He did guard my heart. I did not feel my heart breaking in my chest, I did not break down and cry. I actually whispered a prayer of thanks for the chance to trust Him and His plan once again. I went and picked up a daily devotional right after, hoping for a bit of inspiration I suppose. Out of 365 pages I opened up to one called "God's Promises".

(From "The One Year Mini" daily devotional. "page" November 3rd)

God's promises seem too impossible for me, how could they ever come true in my life?
God's Response
Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. "How could I become a father at the age of one hundred?" he wondered. "Besides, Sarah is ninety; how could she have a baby?" . . . "Is anything too hard for the Lord? About a year from now, just as I told you, I will return, and Sarah will have a son". . . Then the Lord did exactly what he had promised [emphasis mine]. Sarah became pregnant, and she gave a son to Abraham in his old age. It all happened at the time God had said it would. Genesis 17:17; 18:14; 21:1-2

The devotional went on to say how we are to live faithfully, and God will worry about how He will fulfill His promises to us, it's not our job to worry. It also says that He will lead us to unexpected and incredible places.  I don't believe in coincidences, I believe God places things like this devotional, or people, or Scriptures, or even the beauty of nature in our path to encourage us and remind us "I'm right here, I haven't left you".  Lord, THANK YOU.

On a different, but not unrelated note, I got a call from my fertility specialist Dr. a couple of days ago, and told me I have a low functioning or underactive thyroid, Hmm! So interesting.The reason why it's interesting is because at my last appointment when he told me I had to go for more bloodwork to check a few hormones, I, out of the blue, asked him to check my thyroid one more time. So he did, and sure enough, it's not working properly. I knew that an overactive or underactive thyroid can be a reason for many problems, one being infertility. After doing further reading online, I'm now seeing it's very closely connected and throws off hormones. Of course, after speaking to my Doctor, thoughts race through my mind. "Is this IT? Is this the reason I can't get pregnant?" "Did I ask the Doctor about my thyroid because God is showing me an answer?" "Is THIS the answer?"

I will be seeing my family Doctor soon and she is going to prescribe medication for my thyroid. My heart is full of hope that when my thyroid function is corrected, we may conceive. While hypothyroidism may be bad news for some people, I am grateful to have a hint at a possible reason for why we're not getting pregnant.

1 comment:

  1. Don't you just love it when God give you a word like that. You ask, and he opens a book to just the right page to give you the encouragement you need.
    I hadn't made it by here in awhile, but I had to drop by and check-in. I am eager to see what they say about your thyroid. Peace to you during the wait - continue to seek the action He has for you in the meantime. Blessings!

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