I Cannot, But God Will

‘I cannot… but God will.’ (Genesis 41:16)

How eagerly our Cities4Life teams pray and labor on the sidewalks of the abortion center that it would close. We know God must move hearts in a big way to bring about this miracle. In the meantime, He sent a respite. 

Snow!

The snow shut down the abortion center. No babies died Wednesday. 

Instead, our southern, sun-drenched city was blanketed with a beautiful white covering. Magical transformation that made everything look pure, fresh, and clean. All my friends were posting pictures of the snow.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: 

though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; 

though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool...

Isaiah 1:18

Every mother that was going to abort at that center Wednesday had time to ponder this tragic choice. God gave her a period of reflection, and a powerful symbol. Would she embrace God, turn from her rebellion and sin, let her sins be washed away by the blood of Jesus shed on her behalf, made clean and pure and white as snow?

Or would she continue to defy God and trample on His commands and His creation and reap the grief and despair He longs to spare her from?

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:7

My Bible study on the morning the beautiful snow began falling was the story of Joseph. He was thrown in jail following false accusations, but was retrieved from the jail by the Pharoah, who asked Joseph to interpret troubling dreams he had. Joseph immediately replies: “I cannot...but God will...”

Joseph knew where his strength, wisdom, and help came from. He knew when to rely on God and he was humble enough to give God all the glory. 

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful

messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Proverbs 25:13

How I long for the abortion centers to close, mothers’ hearts to return

 to their children, and evil to cease as souls cry out to Jesus to be their Lord and savior. Hard as I try to bring this about,  I cannot. But God can...and will 

one day. I am His servant, rejoicing in the snow and the lives spared for a day.

God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.

Habakkuk 3:19