Some of you are experiencing for the first time what I have always called “Waiting for the other shoe to drop”. It’s a place where your fears and your faith have not quite connected yet. It’s a hard place to be, but for the believer, it should be a path to getting your feelings and emotions lined up with what you know to be true....God is in control. God has always been in control. God will never cease to be in control.
Cancer patients and caregivers live this way. People with chronic illness live this way. I’m sure there are many others who live this way, but that’s the world I know best. I realized this afternoon that those are the familiar feelings I’ve been dealing with this week. I am struggling to take my thoughts captive, to align them with Scriptural thinking, and preach truth to my heart.
In the space between fear and faith, we do things. We try to control our world. Our circumstances. We try, by human means, to “prepare” for the unknown. We read every detail available. We take sides. We look for the right question to ask, find the right answer. We buy toilet paper. :-). We search for what gives us peace in the midst of the unknowns of an illness that doesn't have well defined borders or order yet.
Peace is only found when we trust in the Lord. Trust His Sovereignty and His Goodness. When we acknowledge that no matter what happens, it is for our ultimate good and God’s Glory.
Search the Scriptures for those passages that preach truth to your soul. One of those for me is Matthew 6:25-33. Jesus is speaking to us about not being anxious for what we will eat, drink wear, or how long we will live. Psalm 91 speaks of how we abide in the shadow of the almighty, and the call to make Him my dwelling place. That it is a place of safety. Not from troubles, but from fears.
I’m getting there.....
Said the robin to the sparrow,
“I would really like to know
Why those anxious human beings
rush around and worry so.”
Said the sparrow to the robin,
“Friend, I think that it must be
That they have no Heavenly Father
such as cares for you and me.”
~Elizabeth Chaney
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