Relax, it's His move....

Somedays (lately) I wake up way too early....the wrong side of 4 AM....and my mind is racing. I'm wondering about my next move, what the future will hold, how I will deal with those issues which seem so overwhelming. I have that pit in my stomach that won't go away. My life has been pretty much stress free, but God has a way of getting your attention sometimes and it often doesn't feel very good. So I reach for a book I'm reading by Mark Batterson, "In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day", and I find words which provide comfort and settle the storm within. Mark writes,

"Think of your life as a game of chess. You are the pawn and God is the Grand Master. You have no idea what your next move should be, but God already has the next 200 million moves planned out. Some of His moves won't make sense, but that is simply because we can't compute 200 million contingencies at a time! We've just got to trust the Grand Master. God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go. Now here's the catch: Sometimes His itinerary entails coming face to face with a lion in a pit on a snowy day (read the story of Benaiah, from 2 Samuel). Not a good place to be. But when you find yourself in those challenging circumstances, you need to know that God is ordering your footsteps. You can have a sense of destiny because you know that God has considered EVERY contingency in your life, and He always has your best interest at heart. And that sense of destiny, rooted in the sovereignty of God, helps you pray the unthinkable and attempt the impossible".

In the words of the Psalmist, "I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there too". How comforting is that? So all of the worry, all of the stress, all of the consternation - why do we carry it? It actually suggests a lack of faith. Trust me, I know it's not easy to internalize. But I always tell people to "Keep the Faith", now it's time for me to take my own, good, godly advice.

BELIEVE.