Has anyone noticed the season is beginning to change? We are beginning to experience warm days and cool nights. For sure, there will be more hot days, but the earth has begun it’s tilt and the sun it’s journey to slanted rays. As night follows day, one season upon another.
Cogitation Pauses
I have been pondering lately these changes of life—again. Doesn’t it seem like once you’ve transitioned then you should be set for the even course of life? But no. Life is a series of changes as most of us have discovered. And it seems with every change comes reflection. Another season has departed, a new one is before us. Did we accomplish all we wanted in the season passing? Are we looking forward to the next stage?
We face ageing, in all it’s contours. The body slows down, the bloom of beauty withers and you stare in the mirror and wonder who that is—like Maxine in the cartoons! Only this is not a cartoon. Lifestyle changes happen—sometimes they are forced on us and sometimes they are a natural outcome.
People of faith are chased from their homes around the world and face persecution, loss of belongings and loss of identity. Intolerance becomes more intolerant—even to the point of death.
It’s election time in this country and I wonder what the future holds for us. In looking around the world and seeing so much destruction, sometimes I am afraid of what may be coming here. The saying goes that if a people don’t study history, then they are bound to repeat it. The ideas floating around are reminiscent of a time I would prefer not to endure.
Pre-eminent
Yet – in all things, we serve a God who is Pre-eminent. In all these things, He is still supreme and matchless. In Him there is hope for the future no matter what is happening in us or around us. Scripture tells us that by Jesus, all things were created in heaven, on earth, under the earth, visible and invisible, thrones or dominions, principalities and powers—ALL THINGS.
And He chose to save us from all undesirable matters so we may live forever with Him. His love is boundless, shown through His sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection. We have hope. When we consider Jesus in the midst of all crises, we have hope.
“We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—” II Corinthians 4:8-9.
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation…All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things and in Him all things consist” Colossians 1:15-17.
I’ve been thinking lately about how much we try to count on a life plan and are so surprised when it keeps changing! We have to lean harder on God’s plan, however elusive it may seem. Great post.
You got that right, Jan. God is full of surprises, I am thinking. And it’s up to us to go with Him. Life plan? Guess we need to consult Him more on that, right?
Linda Jo, I am grateful for the hope you share with us here, a bright spot for me on this rainy day amid ongoing sorrows and violence and worldwide hungers. God’s “supreme and matchless” qualities, especially love and mercy and justice, strike me afresh as I contemplate coming days. Thanks for reminding me who holds the future.