Now - life sometimes feels just like that - having to do something seemingly nonsensical when what we are wanting to do seems perfectly reasonable. Yet, life doesn't seem to make sense. Can you relate?
- work that doesn't make sense?
- relationships that don't make sense?
- health crises that don't make sense?
- financial conditions that don't make sense?
- behavior, woundedness, silence, and pain... ?
Our life makes sense to us only on our terms. God, of course calls us to live not by sight - by what makes sense from what WE see - but by faith. What do the nonsensical things of life look like when seen through Christ confidence?
- God working on us, when we are consumed with circumstance?
- His bringing revelation to how we try to meet our own needs instead of relying on Him as our Source?
- relationships in which He wants us to be His instrument instead of using someone else for our benefit?
- A Father's discipline of a child who knows much more about what we want than what we need (cake for breakfast!)?
Today, as God calls you to depend on Him - whether circumstances are desperate or not, whether you feel lacking or not, whether you have a plan or not - what would it look like to walk in faith? What would it be to move forward anticipating His grace for where He leads? How might you reorient your expectations from circumstance to Christ confidence?
...and then - through that wonderful act of worship known as submission - He can bring clarity to the nonsense and shed light amidst darkness. And in that growing radiance of revelation, in that place where we start to see His love and sufficiency more clearly by the light of His grace, we find ourselves.
So - to all the nonsensical moments of tomorrow, I place my trust in the otherworldly sovereignty of a loving Father, and yell...
" T O N E F ! ! ! ! "
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