What We Know...

 If we've learned anything these recent months, it's that unpredictability is a given...

Businesses have closed and jobs have been lost and churches have shut forever and so many things that once seemed so sure, so stable, have been upended... leaving most of us wondering if or when we'll ever seem anything that resembles normalcy again. 

You can feel it in your chest, can't you? 

That tightening, pounding anxious sense that so many things around you are changing and uprooting and dying and transforming and the heart struggles to find firm in the midst of it all. Breaths shorten and faith weakens as you see all the broken and ask yourself where God is in all of this. 

Christmas lights twinkle and an old year fades and we all hope and pray that better days are up ahead but, if we're honest, I think many of us do so hesitatingly. As if we doubt whether that will actually prove true. 

In the midst of the sad and the fallenness of it all, how do you find the holy? Believe that the best is yet to come where God is concerned... believe that God IS concerned and is working out deliverance. How? 

Over the last weeks, I've kept returning to a simple truth that I think holds the answer and it's this: 

God. Is. Coming. 

God is always on the way. Always pursuing. Always chasing. Always for you. Never against you. God never stops moving...even when it looks like He has walked away from everything only to let it burn itself to the ground. 

Within the rubble of it all is evidence that God. still. cares. Still loves. Still sees. And we are never alone.

 

Holidays morph into a new year and then give way to Easter where we're reminded that He triumphs in the end. Always. 

Months roll on and many uncertainties come with them, but this we believe: 

God. Is. On. The. Way. 

We may not know what is coming but what we do know is that God is coming. Because He isn't finished with this story called life yet. We are only in the dark chapters before Light re-appears. 

Friends and family may come and go and jobs do the same and all things may feel like they're shaken and without hope. Impossible. Irreparable. 

But. God. 

Remember that. 

Nobody is certain of anything except the uncertain but, fear not. Joy is on the way. Hope is on the way. Because He's on His way. And that ought to cheer the heart on those fainting days when Light-rays seem few and Love isn't readily visible. 

So breathe, friend. 

This tension will, in time - in His time - give way to calm. Strife will give way to peace. Always does. Because God never fails to show up. 

So sit tight and wait out the storm. 

He. Is. Here.