05/21/2022
Such a good read!
I want life to be as predictable as a math problem. Two plus two always equals four. It will equal four today, tomorrow and into the tomorrows years from now.
Math equations don’t experience breakups and letdowns. They don’t get cancer. Or have their best friend get transferred and move across the country. They are highly predictable. Therefore, math equations are easy to trust.
But sometimes, life doesn’t add up. Sometimes people don’t add up. And in the rawest moments of honest hurting, sometimes we can’t make sense of what God is allowing. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.
It’s in these times I have to tie my heart to soul-steadying verses like Hebrews 13:5b-6, which says: “For God has said, ‘I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.’ So we can say with confidence, ‘The LORD is my helper, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me?’”
The peace of our souls does not have to rise and fall with unpredictable people or situations. Our feelings will shift, of course. People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all God is. And though we can’t predict His specific plans, the fact that God will work everything together for good is a completely predictable promise.
Let’s be so very careful not to base our trust in God on what we can see with our physical eyes. Instead, let’s firmly fix our hope to the fact that even though people may fail us or abandon us, God never will.
