Is your prayer life more about getting God to do your will or you to do His? I’ll be the first to admit that it’s much easier for me to pray about my preferences, priorities and plans than it is to say to my Heavenly Father, “nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.” Yet, there is nothing so freeing and fulfilling than to be right where God means for me to be doing right what God means for me to do. Prayer involves many things, but the most important thing is to request what we need to live for His Kingdom, not to secure what we need to build our own. Today, ask God to give what you need to do what He wants.
Storms Never Have The Final Word
The clouds roll in like never before. The lightning flashes and the thunder roars. The wind blows and the rain pours. Chance of storm: 100%. Something bad is brewing. But, if you love Jesus, you can be sure that the hardships you experience are going to serve the high purposes of God. Chance of good from the storm: 100%. For Christians… Suffering is never pointless. Struggles are never without blessing. Storms never have the final word. Therefore, let us endure hardships in hope while we wait for Him to finish His good work, knowing it will be worth it in the end and someday He will bring all suffering to an end.
It Is Exhausting
One of the most exhausting things in all of life is trying to be in control of your life. Things simply will not always happen the way we want them to, and the more we try to force them to, the more worn out and weary we will become. But there is good news for frustrated control freaks like us: God rules and reigns over the cosmos for the good of His people. So… Step off the throne; that’s where He sits. Step out in faith; that’s where rest comes. Watch the frustration and exhaustion melt away when you operate by this truth: God is in control; we can stop trying to be.
Short #3: Be Courageous
Because of Jesus, we can be courageous in the face of tribulation. His power is greater than our enemies, His sovereignty rules over our battles, His promises reside in our hearts, His forgiveness ensures our futures, His presence empowers our lives, and His grace provides for our needs. Therefore… Be bold to speak the truth in His love. Be courageous to face enemies with His love. Be encouraged in tribulation by His love. Take heart today, Christian… your tribulation will not last forever; but your joy in Jesus will.
When Trials Come
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. – James 1:2-4
Three quick observations about trials…
- It’s not “if” but “when” trials come into our lives. It’s a certainty that we will face them. It should not surprise us. We know they are coming in various formats, durations, intensities and frequencies no matter how hard we try to insulate our lives from them. Hardships are a normal part of the Christian life in this broken world. So, how are we to respond to their arrival and presence?
- Christians should count the various trials in our lives as joy. Not as defeat. Not as pleasant. Not as punishment. Not as meaningless. Not as insignificant. Not as a reason to complain. Not as a lack of God’s care. Trials can be many things, but they cannot be joy-stealers unless we let them. We are to consider it all joy when they come, and we do this by considering how God is at work for good in and through our hardships…
- Trials produce an unshakeable faith in Jesus. They are a means to an end. God uses trials in our lives to grow, enrich, solidify, purify and mature our faith as we trust in, and rely on, the steadfast presence of Jesus to preserve us until the end. In order for us to count our present hardships as joy, we must think about our future. Our faith muscle becoming stronger. Our deliverance becoming sooner. Our witness becoming louder. Our homecoming becoming sweeter. Yes, you have hardships; but you also have hope.
Take heart! While it may feel like trials are breaking you today, you can be sure that God is building you up through them in ways that are going to be amazingly good in the days to come.
The End Of Your Story Is Written
…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith… – Hebrews 12:1c-2a
Our stories don’t always make sense to us. They don’t unfold the way we would have written them if it was up to us. They are full of unpredictable plot twists that catch us by surprise. They can be joyful one page and painful the next. God simply doesn’t do things our way. And that’s a good thing. For His ways are always good, right, wise, and loving. Yet as unforeseeable as how God works in our lives often is to us, there is also something wonderfully reassuring in the knowledge that He is indeed always at work. It’s like we’ve seen this all a thousand times before. Our hero rushes in at just the right moment to save the day. As unpredictable as it is, it is also anticipated. God has proven Himself faithful over and over again. As with any good narrative, questions unfold as the story does. How will God provide? What kind of people will we become? How will God work through us to help others? Where are we going in life? What good will come from this suffering? When will this trial end? Why is this so hard? Do we win in the end? How will this serve God’s purpose? How will my story tell the greatest story ever told? Who’s the real hero? Spoiler alert: That’s Jesus! We may not know how this chapter ends, and the next one begins, but we trust that God knows exactly what He is doing in every scene of our lives. By faith, we travel the course marked out on its pages, knowing that the end of our story has been written, and it’s wonderful. We don’t know what comes next with each turn of the page, and it won’t always make sense to us, but it doesn’t have to. Because our faith is in the One who does know the happily-ever-after ending to our story. After all, He’s the One who wrote it.
God May Not Be Changing The Situation
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. – Romans 8:29
Dear Younger Me,
You’re going to get stronger, tougher and wiser than you are right now. You will become more forgiving, trusting and loving in the days ahead. You have heights and depths and widths of potential in using the abilities and opportunities God has gifted you with that you don’t even see yet, but you will. God loves you just as you are, but He loves you enough to not leave you as you are. He has an end in mind, to make you into the person He created you to be: a faith-walking, difference-making, joy-experiencing image-bearer. He has committed Himself to your long-term transformation as He molds and shapes you to become more like Jesus, and, surprisingly, one of the ways He’s going to refine you is through the fire of hardships. You’ll struggle to find answers on your own, but in time, you’ll learn to ask God for His wisdom which will never fail you. You’ll worry and doubt and fear often, but the day will come when you’ll begin to trust in God and experience peace and courage. You’ll fall short over and over again, but you’ll discover that His grace is sufficient for you as He forgives and frees you from sin. You’ll feel like many tasks in front of you are impossible, but it’ll become clear that they are no match for you when you rely on Jesus Who gives you strength. Here is what I want you to understand about difficulties: sometimes God will change the situation; sometimes God will use the situation to change you. Through every heartache and hardship, God is at work teaching you to look to Jesus, and transforming you to look like Him. When you face troubles and trials, don’t give up hope, because God hasn’t given up on you. You may feel like everything is falling apart, but He’s actually putting you back together again so you can feel, think, speak and act like the person you were born to be. When you look back, you’ll find this to be true: your circumstances may not be different, but you are.
Sincerely,
Older You
It Would All Make Sense If We Knew All He Knows
For we walk by faith, not by sight. – 2 Corinthians 5:7
First glances can be deceiving. Initial observations can be short-sighted. The opening paragraph doesn’t tell the whole story. A focal point garnering attention will blur the background. While it is easy to see the obvious things happening in, around and through our lives, without a careful look through a gospel lens, there is a lot that we can miss. God is doing a thousand things for us today, and we may not have our spiritual eyes locked in on any of them. That’s why we walk by faith and not by sight: in order to trust that He is at work, even when we don’t know what it is that He is doing. This brings joy and hope for the difficult times when it seems to us that God isn’t doing much at all. So, let us… Look back on the day when we first believed. Look around at the daily mercies poured out on us ever since. Look forward to all that is promised for all who await the return of Jesus. Remembrance. Thankfulness. Confidence. He has saved us, is saving us and will save us. For those who are trusting in Jesus, God is always doing much more in us, for us, around us, and through us than we are aware of. All we see is the show, but He is working behind the scenes. All we see is the ship, but He is working beneath the surface. He is precise. He is punctual. He is providential. There is nothing that happens unless it serves His purposes. We don’t have to make sense out of everything that is going on or that we are going through; but we do need to trust that God is tirelessly at work in ways that would make sense if we knew all that He knows. And when we can’t see it with our eyes, let us believe it in our hearts. That’s what faith is for.
Are You Timid? Jesus Offers Courage.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. – John 16:33
In this world, we will have tribulation. It’s inevitable. It’s imminent. Trouble has either already made its way into your life, or it is on its way. But. Take. Heart. Jesus has overcome the world. That means, though He doesn’t always remove the threats from our lives, He does render them powerless to do anything that would prevent us from joyfully enduring and prevailing in the end. This is possible because Jesus has defeated the biggest threats of all: sin, Satan and death. This is possible as we trust in and depend on Him when we face the pain of this world’s brokenness and the persecution of this world’s system of hostility toward God and His people. Because of Jesus we can have courage; the kind of courage that does not shrink back from saying and doing the right things no matter what people might think of us, what might happen to us and what it might cost us if we remain faithful to Jesus. Our courage and encouragement are based on this truth: Jesus has overcome all the tribulations and troubles and trials and tests and temptations of this world! And He is in our corner. His power is greater than our enemies, His sovereignty rules over our battles, His promises reside in our hearts, His forgiveness ensures our futures, His presence empowers our lives, and His grace provides for our needs. Confident in this, we press on! We press on, faithful in temptation and hopeful in tribulation, for we know that He will graciously keep us and empower us and provide for us and go with us and deliver us and save us because He has promised to do so. Therefore… Be bold to speak the truth in His love. Be courageous to face enemies with His love. Be encouraged in tribulation by His love. If you are a Christian, take heart today… He has gotten you this far. He has always provided for you. He will do it again. Your tribulation will not last forever; but your joy in Jesus will.
Are You Wronged? Jesus Offers Justice.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:19-21
Actions will be unkind. Words will be unpleasant. Treatment will be unfair. Neglect will be unnoticed. Results will be unjust. People will be unloving. There will be things said and left unsaid, things done and left undone, which bruise and break our hearts and spirits. People. Will. Sin. Against. Us. It’s never a matter of will it happen, but when it will happen. It’s never a matter of will it hurt, but how much it will hurt. The question is: what will we do about it? The normal response is to burn with vengeance inside. The natural reaction is to bring on vengeance outside. When someone wrongs us, we often desire to make things right by making them pay for their wrongdoing, or at least we wish we could. But Jesus modeled a different way of handling the wrongs of others. The way of love. The way of forgiveness. The way of kindness. The way of good. The way of grace. Jesus knows what it is like to be beat down, mocked, betrayed, abandoned, lied about, crucified. He pressed on during the most difficult times anyone has ever faced, and this was His staggering kindness to sinners like you and me, overcoming our evil with His good on the cross. We. Have. Sinned. Against. God. And Jesus paid our debt. As a result, our role is not to mete out justice; our role is to model His grace. Conquering evil with evil would be to allow evil to conquer us, but we are commanded to release our instinct for revenge to let God judge, punish and make all things right in His timing and in His way. God will repay, either by accepting the payment made by Jesus on the cross should they repent and receive His grace, or by making them pay in hell if they do not. Therefore, let us overcome evil with good and leave it to God to do the work He means to do. We who have received grace should be the quickest to extend it.
Are You Threatened? Jesus Offers Security.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:35-39
People go to great lengths to safeguard their money, their jobs, their computers, their phones, their homes, their health, their families, their minds and their lives against internal and external dangers that threaten their well-being. They look for security in a variety of places ranging from the number in their bank account balance to the number on their keypad of their home alarm system to the number of years of seniority at their workplace. All of the security measures that people take have one thing in common: they can fail at any time, which means they don’t really offer security at all. Real security is having something which guarantees a good future for you that can never be lost by you or taken from you. That’s the kind of security we have in the love that Jesus has for us, even if we experience terrible things in this world because we are headed for another world. Out of His love for us… He laid down His life for us on the cross so we can be forgiven and freed from the only thing that can truly threaten us, our sin. He rose from the dead to defeat the final enemy that we could never safeguard against, our mortality. He sits in the position of power and authority to rule for good the one thing that we struggle to control, our lives. He prepares for us a place and an inheritance to be enjoyed forever by ensuring the one thing that we cannot, our eternity. He promises to provide all that we need for all that we face until He brings us safely to the one thing we long for most, our home with Him. He atones. He rules. He prepares. He sustains. He delivers. And there is nothing that can stop Him from loving us like that. That. Is. Security. Because Jesus loves you… He gave His life for you in the past, He’s walking with you in the present, and He’s coming back for you in the future. Christian, take heart today, for though your life is not without threats and troubles, your life is safe and secure in the love of Jesus.
I Only Know The Road Leads Home
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. – Psalm 34:18
It is right to mourn over loss. It is appropriate to grieve over injustice. It is fitting to hurt over broken relationships. It is correct to lament over bad test results. It is proper to feel pain over rebellious children. It is reasonable to ache over personal mistreatment or persecution. While there is a lot of beauty in this world, it is also plagued with much brokenness. Sin has touched everything with its destructive contamination, and things do not operate as God originally designed. We have all experienced the pain of things gone wrong. Christians aren’t exempt from hurt. No matter what precautions we take to safeguard our lives, no matter how hard we work at being godly people, no matter how diligently we screen who and what we allow to get close to us… something will inevitably come uninvited, unannounced, and unwanted into our lives and cause us pain. Yet… Healing will come. Comfort will come.Justice will come. Restoration will come. Deliverance will come. Joy will come. Salvation will come. Eternal life will come. This is all true because Jesus has come. He has come to join us in our suffering, indeed suffer in our place on the cross so that one day we can enter into a place where there is no suffering at all. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can someday witness the undoing and remaking of all that sin has tainted. Until then, He journeys with us, always cheering, always lifting, always strengthening, always guiding, and always providing all we need. We are sometimes left without answers, but we are never left without hope. Because we are never left without Him. Take heart and trust Him as you press on down the road that He has marked for you to travel, for the day will come when He will put an end to the hurt you experience along the way. I cannot say when the road will end. I do not know what is around the next bend. I only know that the road leads home.
Are You Weak? Jesus Offers Power.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. – 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Suffering is either soon to be knocking at your door, or it has already knocked down your door and has invaded your life. It is inevitable; you will suffer in this world. And when you do, you will likely feel powerless to do anything about it. The mountain will seem too high. The situation will seem too overwhelming. The outlook will seem too bleak. The task will seem too great. In times of weakness like these, we need to remember this: if we trust in our own power, our problems will always seem big. If we trust in the power of Jesus, our problems will always seem small. It would be plausible to lose hope and lose heart when facing things that are too much for us to handle if we were forced to handle them alone. But Jesus has said He will never leave us alone, always supplying the grace we need for the needs we face. He does not promise us a plan to escape our hardships; He promises a power to endure them. A life of power is one that is stripped of self-reliance and replaced with Savior-reliance. A life of power is one in which we acknowledge our need for His help, ask for His help, anticipate His help, accept His help in whatever way He chooses to send it, and act by His help. A life of power is one in which we boast in our weaknesses, gladly enduring them (instead of grumbling about them) because it makes Jesus look good in our lives as His divine strength works in us, for us and through us. With His power, no suffering or struggle or setback or situation can ever overwhelm us as we trust in in the sufficiency of His grace. Therefore, let us abandon trust in ourselves and instead trust in our Savior to empower our next steps into the unexpected, uncertain and unpleasant difficulties of this broken world. Because … With faith all things are not made easy. With faith all things are made possible.
Are You Hurting? Jesus Offers Comfort.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
To be human is to be a sufferer. It is unpleasant. It is unbiased. It is unavoidable. We will all experience hurts of varying intensities, frequencies and durations while we are in this broken world filled with broken people. While suffering is at times a result of our own sinfulness, it is also at times through no wrong-doing on our part that someone or something does us wrong. When something hurtful or hard is happening in our lives that we cannot escape or eliminate, we often turn to something in order to find comfort and cheer. Though binge-eating, day-dreaming, relaxing and other ways of coping might offer some temporary numbing when times are tough, we need something better. Because sooner or later, that numbness wears off, and the struggle is still there. What God offers us in Jesus is a real comfort that doesn’t wear off. It will out-last and out-match whatever hardships we must endure in our mission for Him, our journey with Him and our homecoming to Him. It’s an encouraging, strengthening, sustaining help from the very presence of God that doesn’t show up once the trial is over, but rather joins us right in the middle of it. Jesus comforts us because He knows what it’s like to endure affliction. He entered into our pain and brokenness by coming to earth to suffer for us and secure for us every comfort from God for our suffering both now and forever. But we will only experience this comfort that encourages us when we are teary and strengthens us when we are weary if we will stop looking to other helpers to do for us what only the Helper can do. Are you hurting today? Trust in and turn to Jesus for comfort. He will not walk away from you, but will walk with you to help you press on this very hour, and He will stay with you and get you through every test, trial and tribulation until He gets you home. Rest in the assurance of this truth: Jesus is for you now, and He will come for you soon.
Are You Troubled? Jesus Offers Peace.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. – John 14:27
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No matter how tough we are, how removed we are, how indifferent we are, or how protected we are, there are real threats to our peace of heart and peace of mind. In this world, we will have troubles. But Jesus entered into our world of troubles so we could have our peace restored, both now and forever. That’s what He offers us … peace with God made possible because He died in our place, and the peace of God made possible because we believe in Him. In fact, to the degree that we trust that He rules and reigns over our lives for good, we will experience a depth of heavenly peace that comes when there is no earthly reason for it. Trust in the heart unseats and undoes trouble in the heart no matter what is happening in our lives, for Christian peace does not come instead of problems, but in spite of them. That doesn’t mean that we should be unconcerned or naïve about the realities of the brokenness around us, but rather we should face them with absolute confidence in the presence, promises and provision of Jesus. He has overcome the world, is with us as we live in the world, provides all that we need in this world, and promises to come back to deliver us from this world! So, today when you get that call, diagnosis, news, task, opposition, stress, roadblock or thing that troubles you, remember Who Jesus is to you and what Jesus promises to you. If you trust that He’s powerful enough, loving enough and wise enough to handle sin, death and Satan to give you eternal life, then trust that He can also help you through all the issues you face in everyday life until He gets you home. As you do, nothing will be able to take His peace away from you.
He Knows What You’re Going Through
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14
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When Jesus took on flesh to dwell among us, He didn’t come with an entourage of personal attendants to ensure His well-being. He didn’t book a suite at the first century equivalent of a Four Seasons for His stay. He didn’t plan out an itinerary that was filled with pleasantries and luxuries. He didn’t insulate Himself from the ugliness, brokenness and sinfulness of this world. What He did was join us to suffer like us only a thousand times worse than us. Jesus knows the trials, troubles, tests and temptations that we face in our daily lives because He faced them down too. Life for Jesus on earth was filled with the same things we go through: difficult people, difficult circumstances, difficult tasks, and difficult experiences. And the greatest difficulty always loomed in front of Him: to be crushed on the cross to atone for our sins and secure our trial-free, trouble-free, test-free, temptation-free eternity with God. He suffered. He endured. He conquered. And now He is with you to ensure that you do the same. Jesus knows all about your hurts; and one of the reasons He came was to help you through them and heal you from them. Take heart today and trust in the One who loves, understands, cares and helps you live with God-glorifying, joy-experiencing, hope-filled endurance no matter what you come up against. He doesn’t just know what you are going through. He didn’t just go through it too. He went through it for you.
There Shines An Everlasting Light
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given… and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6
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Christmas is a broken string of lights for many of us. It’s there, but it doesn’t seem to do what it’s supposed to do. It’s bleak, not bright. It’s melancholy, not merry. This time of year is disappointing, discouraging and depressing for a lot of people for a lot of reasons. Bad memories. Missing loved ones. Financial burdens. Unrealized expectations. Busyness. Jealousy. Commercialism. Rude shoppers. Overshadowed birthdays. Ungrateful gift-recipients. Like the string of lights that isn’t working, there are things in our lives which are broken. We’re a broken people in a broken world where there is much that is not as it ought to be. But there is hope for us, because Jesus came for the very reason so many struggle in this season … to fix what has been fractured in us and our world, in part now and in fullness when He comes again. As we await the future and full restoration of all things, we can experience a sense of renewal in the present because of what we have received in the past: A Son who is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. This is what makes our lives merry and bright! That Jesus is our sympathetic listener and best-advice-giver ever. That Jesus is our strong provider in every area of need and weakness. That Jesus is our caring patriarch who will never walk out on us. That Jesus is our inner peace who brings deep well-being for our troubled and tired spirits. In those moments when we find ourselves struggling, let us turn to Him and trust in Him to illuminate the darkness we are walking in, because there is no greater wisdom, no greater power, no greater care, and no greater peace in the universe than His. For even in the midst of the brokenness of this world, there shines an everlasting Light in our hearts.
Your Hope Is In The God Of Hope
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. – Romans 15:13
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It is easy to lose hope when we lose a loved one, lose a job, lose a battle, lose control, lose our health or lose our way, but there is a sure and steadfast hope that is ours as a gift of grace that is always there when we need it most. This hope isn’t some self-created positive attitude that things will turn out the way we envision in our heads; it is a Spirit-produced confidence in the faithfulness of God to keep His promises that is settled in our hearts. He promised that Jesus would come, and He did. He promises that Jesus will come again, and He will. As we reflect on what God has already done, we are reassured of what He is yet to do even as we wait in-between… The beginning and the new beginning. The already and the not yet. The first coming and the second coming. The earthly and the heavenly. The suffering and the pleasure. The seeing through-a-glass and the seeing face-to-face. The temporary and the eternal. Even as we await our entrance into heaven then and there, we can experience our heavenly citizenship here and now. Its peace. Its joy. Its King. How? By believing. Believing that hope in Jesus is never a lost hope. Believing in the promises of the God of hope. Believing that the Holy Spirit will cause us to abound in hope. Yes, this world is full of hurts and heartaches, but no matter what you face today, you can live in celebration of what Jesus has already accomplished for you and in anticipation of the day He will return to heal your hurting heart fully and forever. He has been with you all along. He is with you even now. He will be with you always. Your hope isn’t in your ability to figure out how to make it work out; your hope is confidence that He already has, and though things aren’t yet perfect, the day is coming when they will be.
We Will Finish The Race
In a world of seemingly endless uncertainties, there is something that we can be absolutely sure of: God will finish what He started in us. There is zero chance He will fail. God has begun a good work in us, and He will work all things together for good to ensure its completion (Philippians 1:6). We will keep going. We will endure. We will make it. Not because of anything we can do apart from God, but because Jesus is a part of us, enabling us by His grace to persevere to the end when we can echo Paul’s words, “I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7) Until then, even when our days include struggles and our walk include stumbles, let us press on in joyful confidence that getting to our heavenly home does not depend upon us but on God at work in us and for us. God does not start this work and leave us alone to finish it. He will stay right with us. He will do whatever it takes. He will provide all that is needed. He will take as long as required. Yes, we work hard by His grace to follow Him closely in loving obedience, but He alone will ensure that we are able to do so every step of the way. Rejoice as you hold on until the end-before-the-beginning, knowing that God is holding on to you. On this our eternal security firmly rests: We will finish the race because He will finish what He started.
There Is Much I Don’t Know
There is so much I don’t know. Every day I am aware of my limitations for figuring things out on my own. I often don’t know… What to say. What to think. What to do. What to pray. What to desire. What to prioritize. What to decline. What to give. What to believe. Know what I mean? There are countless perplexities in our lives where the best way to proceed is often unknown to us. But there is good news for people like you and me. There is so much we do not know, but all we need to know is Jesus. Why? Because He knows everything! Every mystery is already solved by Him. Every as yet unwritten page is an open book to Him. Every murky situation is crystal clear to Him. Every question is easily answered by Him. He knows exactly what we should say, think, do, and feel to wisely navigate through life. Better still, He makes known those very things to us so we can know what He knows. The wisest thing we can do today is seek the wisdom of the Lord. There will never be a situation for which He does not have the answer. Don’t be concerned about what you do not know; be confident in the One Who knows it all.
