There’s little in this world I love more than a good story. Kids’ stories, adventure stories, even science fiction stories from time to time.
The end of the year seems like the perfect time to tell stories. In fact, the team at Revive Our Hearts and True Woman is gathering stories of what God has done in women’s lives this year. And we’d love to hear your story.
Email Stories@ReviveOurHearts.com with your story in 500 words or less, or send us a link to your two to four minute YouTube video. You never know—we might share your story as we reflect on what God has done in 2012.
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I met my future husband at the end of a one year student exchange program. The trip to New Zealand had been more than voluntary this time. To explore another country on the other side of the world for a whole year! What an exciting opportunity. Two and a half years later, and a fair amount of kilometers in the baggage, we married. As a gift from my husband to me, we got married in my loved home country, Norway. A few days after the wedding, we were in full swing applying for my husband’s permit to stay in Norway.
Five months later, we got the answer. After looking at my character, my history, my pay slips – my everything it seemed, I failed. There had been a certain requirement to get in, and on the basis of who I am and what I had accomplished in my life, I didn’t make it. I simply wasn’t good enough. Ouch!
Then we read on the eviction notice. “The person does not fulfill the demands required of the provider”.
After many tears the thought came… What if our hope depended on someone else’s performance? What if our “destination” was decided solely by the character and life of another person? That thought then became the very best comfort, because in this instance, that person was thankfully – not me! I came to remember that there was indeed one such person. The very Son of God! The perfect Savior did what I could not do, and on the basis of him, and purely on him, was my place in heaven secured forever. From what I have learned so far about visas and permits, this citizenship is by far the best one I ever could have gotten.
It had indeed been a fascinating reality from the start. My husband’s permit had never at any point depended on him. It was solely my record that would ensure his entry and permit into my land. My performance and my record bought my husband his eviction note, his deportation. Our Lord’s performance, thankfully bought us, his bride, something much better, and something much more glorious when he rose from the dead. A citizenship in heaven!
on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 3:39 pm
on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 10:53 am