AUGUST 23, 2023
Isaiah 55:8-9
“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways,’ declares the Lord ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’”
Giving God the Unknowns
Life is full of unknowns and question marks. I find it can
be easy to fall into worry and even fear about the future.
I have learned over time, that we don’t have to live life in a cycle of fear
and worry, we can grow to trust God, and learn the practice of surrendering to him
the unknowns in our lives.
It is in these times that we need to call to mind who God is
and what God promises to each of us. For example, we remember that God is all-knowing.
God has knowledge of the past, present and the future. Truth is God knows more
about the world and you and me, then we ever could. We sometimes say that “God
knows us better than we know ourselves.” We can look at the unknowns in our
lives, the uncertainties that cause us to fret, fear and worry and remind
ourselves that what is unknown to us is known to our Good, and Loving God. So,
we can open our heart and hands and let things go into God’s care.
Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he
will make your paths straight.” Our understanding is limited, our knowledge is
incomplete. God’s is not, and when we trust God with the stuff of living, we can
have a peace that passes understanding, about the path ahead of us. You see, we
don’t have to surrender all the unknowns and worries all at once, we can take each day
one at a time. Trusting and giving God each one, minute by minute, hour by hour
and day by day. Being mindful of Jesus words, “do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34
As Jesus followers may we grow and learn to live and trust
God in the midst of the unknown and find the peace that passes our
understanding.
“The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life — of whom shall I be afraid?”
Psalm
27:1
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