God's amazing faithfulness overwhelms...
We live in a world of inconsistencies. It is a world that ultimately lacks a standard. But God and His mercy and grace changes not.
Pregnancy is a stretching time, a time when I realize already how much change is ahead...
I feel it in every new "pregnancy experience." My body is being overtaken, and controlled from the inside out. I often don't feel up to the challenge of it all.
One of the analogies God uses to speak to us about the Christian experience is that of birth and rebirth. Paul speaks of the pain and discomfort and striving with others to see them accept Christ in birthing terms. Matthew 24 and 25 tells of the second coming of Jesus and there the words used describe the troubles and tribulation of the last days are the words "the beginning of sorrows," or at least this is how some translations render it, but if you go to the original, it reads more like the beginning of birth pangs. Our world is going through a re-birth process. We look at the financial mess the world is in, the ecological mess the world is in, the famines and disease and these all are signs that Jesus is coming soon. It is just as sure and even more certain, then the reality that the growing bulge and my changing shape is due to this little person developing inside me.
I am so very grateful that in all this change and uncertainty I can know with certainty that God holds my future and my present in His all powerful hand. It is good to know that the One who loves me most is taking care of me. There are times in this stage of life, after heartbreak and pain has already come, to trust God. Don't get me wrong, He has always been faithful, but faithfulness is not always neat and tidy in a sin-filled world. Bad things do happen. Yet His faithfulness is not jeopardized by sins presence. He is calling me up higher to a place of absolute surrender and total complete ruthless trust ( to borrow from Brennan Manning).
The One who calls is faithful.
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