Good morning…
If I had one superpower I think I might choose the ability to control time.
Wouldn’t it be cool to turn back time, returning to a day we would love to last forever? Wouldn’t it awesome to speed up time, fast-forwarding through a dark, hard season to get to our bright future? Wouldn’t it be empowering to make things happen right now, getting our way, forcing all of our dreams to come beautifully true?
I do not possess this superpower. Neither do you. Alas, we cannot turn back or speed up time, and we cannot make our deepest desires come true right before our hungry eyes. Yet, my friends, we do possess the next best thing. We have the power to access the Superpower of Immanuel, the God who is with us. Always.
If we cannot control time and we cannot control God, how are we humans supposed to access this saving Superpower?
May I make a suggestion?
People who know me well know that I repeat to myself one sentence regularly: “Today is not the day to know.” Impatiently, we want to know answers. Frantically, we want to know how, when, and from where healed wholeness will come. Anxiously, we want to know clearly the details of our unknown future. Might we all might do well to pull out this serene sentence sometimes? “Today is not the day to know.”
Today is not the day to know, today is the day to trust. Today we are invited to trust more intimately the God, the Superpower, who is in the process of pulling off the perfect timing. Remember our Re-Creator is gradually expanding the kingdom of heaven on earth? How? When? In what way? Today is not the day to know, today is the day to watch for simple signs of the slow steady work of our super strong God.
Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change (2 Peter 3:8-9, MSG).
…Sue…
