Trust: Full of Headaches or Hope?

Yesterday while I walked all across Blogland during the big Home Tour, I came across a Christian woman who was all in a dither. 

She had bees in her bonnet because of the current Mid-East crisis and was troubled, upset that all the rest of us in Blogland were not troubled and upset. She'd visited some of us and scoffed that we were speaking of trivial things, instead, and now she was feeling more sick than ever because of us.

And ok, there is that. There is choosing to view Life that way, to live angry and view the rest of us as clueless morons if we don't choose to get sick with worry. 

And there's believing one is more spiritual if one always has a headache, a heartache and an I'll-take-you-down sermon.

And if that's your idea of being truly spiritual, well, go for it. Go in God. 

But as for me and my house, we will lift our head because our redemption draws nigh, more nigh than ever before. We will not dash around in panic just because the world is going exactly according to plan as written in the Bible. Instead, we'll use these times to get out our Bibles and read them for God's perspective.

We'll pray for Jerusalem and all those who stand against her. We'll give money, aid, comfort and hope wherever God leads us and trust that He's as mighty and in-control as He ever was, even in 2006.

We will, in these very troubled times, draw closer to God than ever before and in so doing, will come away refreshed, renewed, hopeful and excited about the days in which we are living, days when History is being brought to an adventurous close.

And in drawing closer to God? We'll laugh and trust as children walking beside their Father with their hand in His, full of real, actual trust, we'll sing down paths with His joy unspeakable and full of glory.

And keep on singing, even when we've discovered--oh my!--we've left this Earth and stepped across the very threshold of Light-filled Heaven.



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