Someday, my son will live without his disabilities, including these seizure-like episodes he is experiencing. Someday, I will live free from all the temptation of sin. We will both see clearly: For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Those of us living with disability in our family are living in a gap. We know that all of God’s promises are true, and we know that some of those promises will not be fulfilled for a very long time (probably).
I’m working my way though Joel Beeke and Jame LaBelle’s book, Living by God’s Promises, and came across this helpful paragraph (emphases in bold are mine):
Thus, if we steadfastly believe and rest on the foundational promise that God is our God, we will find more comfort than we could find in all the world. David expresses this beautifully in Psalm 56:8-11: “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.” Caught in the gap between God’s promise (1 Samuel 16:11-13) and its fulfillment, David finds a world of comfort in the foundational promise of God that God is for him. Beeke and LaBelle, p. 17
Yes, even today I know that God is for me! God is for all his children who have been called into saving faith!
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).
And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age (Matthew 28:20b).
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you (John 14:16-17).
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14
Yes, I do find a world of comfort that God is for me right now even as I hope in future grace.
The Works of God 
Thanks for this post. This reminds me of thoughts I’ve had:
Some people believe God’s promises can’t possibly be true, or they wouldn’t be in the circumstances they are in. I’ve been guilty of that in the past (even though I’ve known no tragedy like living with disability).
Other people believe God’s promises will come true some day. For now, we just repeat them to ourselves, soothing ourselves with the familiar words but not expecting them to make a difference today.
But I think the real life of faith scrutinizes the details of God’s promises, and also scrutinizes the details of our present circumstances, to lay the discrepancy between the two before Him in prayer. The promises will not be totally fulfilled in this life, but they can be fulfilled to a greater degree than we might imagine.
I just found your blog & what a ray of joy it is! I currently care for 7 children (4 of my own, 3 foster children) & 1 of those children has cerebral palsy, autism, a seizure disorder, partial blindness, non-verbal, & cannot walk. Taking on this beautiful child has been quite a challenge, but I have seen so much to praise God for in every small improvement. I want so desperately to teach him about the loving God our own children know! Reading your blog has given me hope that there is a way. Thank you for sharing your journey.
I believe the Lord led me to your website.It’s not by chance because I have been pondering on why the promises of God get delayed in their fulfillment. I cannot put the blame in God’s quarters because I’m convinced that He is righteous, a respecter of no one. His unsearchable love for mankind was the basis for His giving us Himself in Christ; and in Christ all disability or limitations have been taken care of- changed from disabillity to ability. In Christ there is no limitation or disability because of His finished work, His redemptive work.
For everyone who is in Christ, the accomplished work of christ by virtue of His sacrificial death and resurrection is like a promise. It’s like a promise because you don’t experience all the benefits of salvation immediately you give your life to Christ. Rather it comes as you grow in the knowledge of the Lord and by walking in faith (1Peter1:3) Hence this kind of promise depends on you the believer. How quickly you are able to appropriate the benefits of salvation depends on how much you understand what Christ has done for you, how you can through that knowledge muster enough faith as to walk in the reality of the benefits of salvation.
The faith walk is therefore like a spiritual school with the Holy Spirit playing the role of the headteacher, teaching and supervising the supply of spiritual information to us, not only from the scriptures but also through our day to day experiences in life. He ensures we learn about who we are, what we have in Christ and how all this come together into our identity in Christ and His kingdom.
There are also, from time to time, inspections and tests to prove our current standing with the Lord, and how well we perform in these, in turn, determine our promotion in Him. These inspections and tests we can simply refer to as the Time of Visitation.
The Lord Jesus showed His displeasure that His people, the Jews, did not recognise Him as their saviour by declaring that they had not known the time of their visitation.
Everyone in Christ has his time of visitation as salvation and the relationship that arises from it is personal. You need to watch out for those tests. You need to watch out for those inspections. The Lord will visit you from time to time as a King will visit the heir at training to inspect and see for Himself how well the heir is doing. Those times of unsual move of the spirit in you and around you are not for nothing. That’s the Lord visiting. The Bible says to seek the Lord when He’s near.
You have got to pay attention and appropriate such moments of visitation. That prompting from the spirit to pray may be the Lord trying to engage with you in order to provide solutions to that limitation.
Search out and recognise by the Spirit anointing of the Lord being carried by certain men of God called by Him to be used to provide solutions to limitations operating in any of His children. What the anointing does is to make the presence of the Lord available in a place as well as create an atmosphere for the miraculous. This is the Lord’s invitation. Go with your faith and experience the miraculous to the end that that limitation is removed. Being ignorant of the Lord’s visitations and invitations might delay the fulfillment of God’s promises upon your life. God bless you.
Why do the righteous suffers and be tormented by the so called brethren? Why do brethren envy one another?