My friend and blog reader Kathleen wrote this comment to my house sale prayer request from Thursday:

I feel your concerns Bob. Our house has been on the market for a little over 5 weeks. Showings have picked up. While we elected to not do a bridge loan, I completely understand how you are feeling. I will keep you in my prayers for the sale of your home. Please keep Dan & I in your prayers that ours sells soon too. Trusting God’s perfect timing, not ours.

I assured her that I was praying for her house sale as I prayed for my own, and that day I came across these verses from Psalm 78:

And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired. He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. (Psalm 78.53 – 55, NKJV)

I can pray this for the house sale. It was a process getting the Israelites out of Egypt and into the promised land, but God accomplished both. Got them out. Got them in. In our case, he got us in through the cooperation of the credit union and the bridge loan. Now he will get us out.

For Dan and Kathleen, it’s the other order. God needs to get them out of their current house and into the house of his choice, as she says, in “God’s perfect timing.”

Or, to change the metaphor:

One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out. (Luke 8.22. ESV, emphasis mine)