Uncertainty
It is so easy to get bogged down within the "what if's" of life. I find myself guilty of this time and time again. I am weighed down at this very moment with fleeting thoughts of things that will probably never come to pass, and it affects my ability to concentrate and above all to rest in the arms of Christ without flinching.
I have to remember and make myself fully believe that God won't let our loved ones leave this earth before He's ready to accept them home. A passing of a second cousin's wife (unexpectedly) this past week makes me even question that.....she had so much left to live for!! She had overcome a car accident that nearly killed her ten years ago, and was just starting to get her life back to normal....now this. I'm sure I am not the only one who questioned this outcome.
If we could all just remember that His ways are not our ways, and they are most certainly HIGHer than our ways. Hard pill to swallow, that is. I still like to think of it in the tapestry sense; that behind our life's tapestries, the threads are mangled and tangled....yet God sees the completed picture on the front, and we may view that angle one day in the future, either on earth or in eternity once life is over.
I need to learn how to trust God with more childlike fervor. I need to learn how to lessen my tight grasp on those I love and let them slip through my fingers into His open palms. I need to learn how to run to Him in prayer instead of pulling out my hair and thinking the worst.
I need to see God more as my Daddy. He longs to be just that. Like my own Dad used to do when I was smaller, He longs to bundle us in His arms and put a band-aid on that cut or scrape that, to us, hurts like crazy. He longs to cheer us on when we are doing things for Him. He longs to watch over us while we sleep. What a beautiful picture. I have to believe that. In such an uncertain, often scary, world, that certainty that we are safe in His hands is a refuge for our senses. And it's the absolute truth, too.
I have to remember and make myself fully believe that God won't let our loved ones leave this earth before He's ready to accept them home. A passing of a second cousin's wife (unexpectedly) this past week makes me even question that.....she had so much left to live for!! She had overcome a car accident that nearly killed her ten years ago, and was just starting to get her life back to normal....now this. I'm sure I am not the only one who questioned this outcome.
If we could all just remember that His ways are not our ways, and they are most certainly HIGHer than our ways. Hard pill to swallow, that is. I still like to think of it in the tapestry sense; that behind our life's tapestries, the threads are mangled and tangled....yet God sees the completed picture on the front, and we may view that angle one day in the future, either on earth or in eternity once life is over.
I need to learn how to trust God with more childlike fervor. I need to learn how to lessen my tight grasp on those I love and let them slip through my fingers into His open palms. I need to learn how to run to Him in prayer instead of pulling out my hair and thinking the worst.
I need to see God more as my Daddy. He longs to be just that. Like my own Dad used to do when I was smaller, He longs to bundle us in His arms and put a band-aid on that cut or scrape that, to us, hurts like crazy. He longs to cheer us on when we are doing things for Him. He longs to watch over us while we sleep. What a beautiful picture. I have to believe that. In such an uncertain, often scary, world, that certainty that we are safe in His hands is a refuge for our senses. And it's the absolute truth, too.
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