For some, the new year is exhilarating. The excitement, dreams, and hopes bring joy to the heart.
But for others, the new year is just a reminder of one more year that didn’t go as expected. Some of us woke up to the same broken family, the same unemployment check, and the same sick child. For some, the year didn’t change much when that ball dropped. Instead, it was just a reminder of all that is still not right.
It’s a reminder of one more failed dream, one more failed goal. It’s a reminder of all that we can not control and all that is unknown.
The unknown. It’s just one little word, but it’s paralyzing. Facing the unknown makes the strong weak and the confident insecure. After years of waking up everyday afraid of the unknown, I have this truth…
Fear is just a lie.
While it may seem that others have a guarantee…they do not. We are all but a vapor. All at the mercy of whatever the next moment holds. Death, unemployment, divorce, illness…they are not selective. Anyone is in just as much danger as the next person.
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:39
We could chose to live in fear, gripping tight to what we have, stockpiling and hoarding…but it will never be enough. We are not promised the next moment. Only this one. So, how will we chose to spend it? Worried and afraid, buying the lie that there is something that we can do to prevent a storm? Or will we throw out the lie and hold fast to the promise that He is always working things for our good? Even the hurt. Even the struggle.
Friend, the unknown is a blessing, for if we really knew, we wouldn’t be able to handle it. Rest in His protection. Live fearless over the next moment, cherishing the very one that you are living right now. Because…”someday we will touch the face of our God and the sorrow will disappear.” ~Tenth Avenue North
Kim Sorgius
Kim is just a girl, crazy in love with Jesus. She's a single mother of 4, a passionate homeschooler and life-long student. After teaching 8 years in public school, she traded her M.A. in Early Childhood for sippy cups and homeschool co-ops. Kim is the owner and editor of The Homeschool Village and Not Consumed where she encourages others to rest victoriously in the hands of God, rather than allowing life's difficult circumstances to consume.
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EXACTLY what our family needed this morning…isn’t God amazing like that?
A lot of people want to live on the highs on life, to always be looking past a struggle to times when things are easy and fun. But I have found through experience that I feel closest to God during those times of the unknown, the unstable, and the unsure.
You remember those times more clearly also. They are seasons where life becomes very “real” – where you have to make decisions about your actions and attitude that will effect you for the rest of your life.
We are standing at the cusp of this New Year still facing the problems that were present last week, in 2012. Thanks for this post. It gives me strength.
Thanks Kim. I needed to hear this. We are facing some trials in our business and I have to keep reminding myself that it is all in God’s hands. Imagining what amazing GOOD He has for us is a sure antidote for fear. Thanks for sharing your heart. You are a blessing!
Oh my word you have no idea how timely this was, my husband has been at his current job for over 10 years and with every year things get worse on how he is treated and I have watched him sink lower and lower. Today he called saying he just wasn’t sure if he could go there anymore, I have a job which isn’t much but I simply told him if he needed to walk away that he has my support(all the while in my mind terrified about that). This post was what I needed to hear that what ever my husband decides God has us in his hands. Thanks.