Good morning…
As you can imagine, after our past two posts which wrestle with “the will of God,” I have received many heartfelt emails from fellow followers of Christ trying to explain the philosophy of life stabilizing us during tumultuous times, like an anchor steadies a ship. I will share a heavy handful of our treasured thoughts.
“These are such powerful questions to explore,” writes one reader. “I remember Ken Boa coming to speak to us, and his topic was navigating the ups and downs of this life. He mentioned the two truths that we need to establish in our minds (those ‘anchors’): God is sovereign. God is good. He also said God does not say we have to understand, but He asks us to trust Him.”
“I certainly do not begin to understand the complexities of “the will of God,” writes another reader. “However, I personally have chosen to live under the umbrella that everything that happens ultimately fits into God’s higher will because He is always in control. That is what gives me comfort in this upside down world we are living in and seeing all the tragedies around us.”
“Through prayer and thought and wise words from people of faith this wisdom came upon my heart many, many years ago: ‘Life is random, God is constant,’” writes another reader. “There are so many mysteries of God that we can’t comprehend in this life,” concludes still another.
“Eventually, I chose to just trust God, knowing He allowed our son to die at the exact time he did, but I don’t believe it was ‘God’s will’ from the very beginning,” writes a longtime subscriber. “Unfortunately, in our fallen world, there is mental illness, substance abuse disorder, cancer etc… and the question to me is, “Why do some people get earthly healing, and others heavenly healing?” Yet I know that I won’t fully understand until I reach my Eternal home alongside our son forever.”
“I cannot fathom losing a child, but I watched my mom walk through it when we lost my brother,” writes another reader. “He was an addict and had fought that horrible battle most of his life. We lost him in a terrible accident but when it happened, my mother found peace from the fact that he was now free and with God. She lived her life and taught us to always be thankful, no matter what, find the good and focus on that. It’s always there, some days you just have to look harder than others.”
“Hallelujah that Christ is Risen and that we know where we will be for eternity,” another points out the path ahead of us.
“Thank you, these devotionals about ‘the will of God,’ they have been really exceptional for me! My anchor is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my life and the lives of my family and friends are in His hands, I trust Him, and I trust what He is allowing to go on in His creation.”
God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks (Psalm 36:5-6, MSG).
…Sue…
