Life Goes On
God's goodness is evident in His NOT telling us all the details coming our way
I know I’ve expressed my love for Steel Magnolias before, but one line has been on my mind quite often these past few weeks. “Life goes on.” Sally Fields, a grieving mother and loving grandmother, has finally come to a place where putting one foot in front of another is o.k. And that’s where I am.
James 4:14 explains why:
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
It’s always there, in the back of our minds. We can’t control tomorrow. We can (and should) plan for it, but ultimately, God’s great gift to us is that He does not burden us with the knowledge of the future. Read that again: He does not burden us with the knowledge of the future.
We act like it would give us greater security if we knew what the Lord intended for tomorrow or next week or five years down the road. But friends, it would not. The weight of foreknowing is too much for us to bear. Want evidence of that truth? How do you function in the days after a diagnosis? A job loss? A pivot that unseats your norm? You function. You grapple. And eventually… life goes on.
Think that being smacked with all those twists and turns at once, years beforehand, would shape your heart to accept them any better? Of course not.
We are better off standing on the edge of a hard thing and going into a freefall in the arms of Jesus, every time. Firm in the understanding that we do not tumble alone, confident in the grace that sustains the vapor of our life, we are better left to God’s mercies than those we assume we can conjure for ourselves.
Life goes on, friends. Past the good, the bad, the celebrations, the mourning. Is you life anchored in the salvation that brings peace to those days of feast and famine?
In Christ,
Heather