Leaning Forward

My guess is that your sitting still while reading this blog, but the truth is you are moving. You are moving at a speed of 1,000 miles per hour. Planet earth will make one full rotation within the next 24 hours. By the end of that time you will have traveled 1.3 million miles around the sun (so that’s why I’m so tired).  It’s strange how we have a tendency to forget this!

I have a habit of taking things like this for granted. All of my “issues” seem to overshadow the fact that I exist on a planet that is dangling in space. I don’t mean to make light of life’s “issues” because they can be daunting, painful, and real. I work with people everyday that wonder where their next meal is going to come from, where they will lie their head down, and if they will ever be free from their addiction to alcohol and drugs. Some of you are struggling to get the bills paid. Some of you are dealing with the loss of a loved one, a marriage that’s on the brink of extinction, or a depressing doctor’s report. True enough we may never understand why things happen the way they do, but we do know that the God that created us loves us. The One who knows the stars by name (all 100 billion of them in each of the 100 billion galaxies) is more than able, and He knows us by name as well.

God is more interested in us reaching out to Him in faith than He is answering our why. Faith never denies the facts, faith invites God into the facts. Only then will our natural become supernatural, and our common becomes uncommon. Let’s be honest though we’re uncomfortable with faith talk. Sometimes we speak of faith as a last resort. When we speak of faith, it’s in a tone of depletion. “Well, I just have to have faith that everything is going to work out.” I wonder in our own faith language if we don’t chase God away from us in the moments when He so desperately wants to show up. We’ve must  begin to speak life into our situations, despite the facts. We’ve got to start believing God. The Psalmist writes, “[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living!’ Psalm 27:3 What will become of us, if we do not believe God! He is able. After all, if He put the planets in place and keeps them there; He can handle our struggles.