Life spins out of control sometimes.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. It happens. It happens to everyone. Really, it happens to everyone, pretty much every day.
We are never in control.
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell Me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone -- while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" | Job 38:4-7
He...
...the One who laid the earth's foundations...
...He is the One in control.
He is sovereign.
And there is no sweeter truth.
The Christ-life is deeply practical. It is not simply for moments of riverside meditation.
It's for moments of raw pain when a well-loved man slips away with the sun. It's for moments of loneliness when best friends are half a country away and other close friends might as well be. It's for moments when year-old sins whisper lies in the darkest minutes of the wee-morning hours. It's for moments of deeply difficult sacrifice as a hand that has clutched long and tight is slowly, painfully pried open to yield up the treasure it so fiercely protected.
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Faith is following when there is no light, because we have seen His face, we know His goodness, we know His leading.
Faith is falling to the ground, looking up, eyes filled with pain and confusion and doubt, and declaring, no matter how tremulously, "Oh Lord...Thou knowest."
He knows.
How it thrills my heart!
"God has a plan." How many times have you heard it? Is it cliche to you, or is it truth?
Can we not rest?
Can we not sit back, say with deepest reverence, "Thou knowest," and rest in His boundless, shore-less, reckless love?
For yes...His love isn't put off by our confusion. Our doubts do not stop it. The pain that overwhelms us is not too deep a hole for His love to spill into and spill over.
Rest is not easy. But He is sovereign. It is freeing. It is the only reason we can rest. 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus!
Wherever you are at today, my friend, may the sovereignty of an all-loving Friend rest heavily upon you. He sees. He knows. He acts.
Sovereign.
