“Then God said to Noah, ‘Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives’ ” (Genesis 8:15-16 ɴɪᴠ).
God calls us out of our grief when He knows we are ready. Often we grow impatient and restless while we wait for life to feel normal again. God alone knows what we are facing and what our “new normal” will look like, so He uses waiting to prepare us. While we are waiting, we need to make sure we are allowing the time to be used to train and equip us for the next steps.
Readiness was revealed to Noah after he received the dove with the olive leaf, evidence of the water receding and earth emerging. Will you be ready when you first see your own olive leaf, a sign of a restored land, an emerging life God has prepared?
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