While I was reading, I remembered a statement that Andy Stanley said at the DRIVE conference in 2005... "even negative momentum is momentum." What he was talking about was difficult to understand at the time. It's difficult to imagine that somehow a problem in an organization is going to help things keep moving forward. It seems to me like when there are problems, they detract from the progress that we are making. The honest truth is that I figured it was true because Andy Stanley said it and he is like a leadership genius in my book... I just didn't know how to make sense of it.
Last night I got a little glimpse of how that statement could be true.
Ezra 1:7 says that "Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles
belonging to the temple of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar
had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed
in the temple of his god."
It amazes me. God can redeem the crappiest situation. Even when a loser of a king steals all of the articles of value from the temple intended to worship God, He chooses (in His time) to set the wheels of time in motion to play out for His glory. King Cyrus took those valuables and replaced them in the new temple... why? not because he thought they looked nicer in there... not because he wanted some attention... ultimately he put them in the temple because God orchestrated it. Think about that.
GOD HANDLED EVERYTHING FOR HIS GLORY IN HIS TIMING.
How often do I get frustrated because God isn't doing what I want when I want? When problems arise (and they always do when you work with people), I need to keep my eyes on this reality. Even negative momentum is momentum... God may be up to something for His glory that I can't see right now. He is in the business of redemption... and He is very good at it.
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