Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
I think most of my peers, most of us in this season of life find ourselves in reflection, where we have spent our energies, and where we are in life as a result, if you will. Lord willing, we may consider ourselves about the two thirds mark, what will this last season of life bring? This reflection could fill a novel for me, introspection can be both healthy and tormenting, but it also always brings about the questions of “what if” in countless scenarios. We look back at the big picture, the directions that life’s decisions or circumstance may have taken us. We may even delve much deeper into the paths of each of those, the little things of life that may have resulted in big changes. Personally I have so many regrets, so many things big and small that I wish I had made better choices in life. Sometimes I wonder if I was to write about them would it help the burdens I bare, but I am no different from your life’s story, we all have our novels to write.
BUT GOD, has designed or allowed all these highs and lows of my life. Our limited minds will never understand the complexity of our free will and the blend of God’s sovereignty. We will never understand in this life how God allows us to wander down countless paths we will regret, and yet somehow recenter us to himself through his mercy and undeserving grace. James wrote of how God humbles us many times, and “gives more grace.” (James 4) I listened to a blend of sermons this week on a road trip, and God tied them together for me beautifully. I heard of God’s sovereignty, of the biggest topics such as predestination, and listened to a rebuke of pastors who had lost their focus. That sermon from second Timothy impacted me as I listened three times, it made me question deeply my personal struggles and mis-guided focus many times, the world and lusts of it take so many of our focuses off our relationships with God.
Another message was one of spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6), the unseen but felt battle of good and evil that rages all around us each day. The pastor told of how God protects us from seeing it for we could not handle it if we knew how real it was. I am keenly aware to this war, I can attest to it’s power in cycles of sin and spiritual highs, encounters both good and bad, of how Satan’s attacks are many times predictable with both of them. I laughed and told one of my best friends this week, the Godliest man I know, “If people don’t believe in spiritual warfare they need to hang around with me a couple of days and present their argument.” God allows these days, he has allowed this different seasons of your entire life, both the good and the bad, all to draw you closer to himself. All we must do is to humble ourselves and realize God’s sovereign control over the good and bad days. All we must do is to seek to draw closer to him through it all. All we must do, is to do one day at a time, and give thanks for the breath of each day to walk through it by faith in that knowledge of it all.
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