So now what?
Only God knows, and that’s good because only God needs to know. What we do know is we get to continue living loved and loving living, and this is enough.
What about you? What sort of changes have you walked through these past few months? Have you given yourself the opportunity to welcome them, even if they seem to have zero good in them. Do you join me in believing that welcoming even the difficult trials we face, matters? If you are a fellow saint, having placed your faith in Jesus, I believe we can experience more of His indescribable peace by doing just that. After all, we are in them because He has made it so, never ever as a punishment but truly as an opportunity to come into greater freedom by knowing Him even more intimately. This time of set-apart-ed-ness for our family is a time for us to remember this truth and proactively choose to live it out. As you remember us please join us by asking for our continued letting of God’s ability within us be more than sufficient for us and those around us as we tarry to live well here and there, remembering this is exactly where He has placed each of us.
May you be encouraged as… you. are. doing. the. same. too!
Now for a few words from my fellow saint Oswald Chambers from Not Knowing Whither. Oswald summarizes well “the why” of who we — the Shultz Flock — are. I often choose to tweak words as I read (because I believe only Jesus can use absolute words) so for your reading pleasure I’ve added in the parentheses the way I read his words, consider it more training in Karaese :-)
When Jesus Christ says “Follow Me,” He never says to where, the consequences (outcomes) must (get to) be left entirely to Him. We come in with our “buts,” and “supposings,” and “what will happen if I do?” We have nothing to do with what will happen if (when) we obey, we have (get) to abandon to God’s call in unconditional surrender and smilingly wash our hands of the consequences (outcomes). Until we get through all the shivering wisdom that will not venture out on God, we will (may) never know all that is involved in the life of faith. Fate means stoical resignation to an unknown force. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ. As we live in contact with God, His order comes to us in the haphazard, and we recognise that every detail of our lives is engineered for us by our Heavenly Father. If we are going to live a life of faith, we must (get to) rest nowhere until we see God and know Him in spite of all apparent contradictions.
Well said Sir, well said <3
Now onto living loved and loving living…
Yes, this has already happened this year, twice actually!