It's cold again. You have to wear your coat, hat, maybe gloves to walk your mutt. Last week you could wear short sleeves and you forgot all about bundling up -- it was like the winter cold never happened. Now it's like the warm never happened.
Today weighs a lot -- more than you realize, more than it should. Today always feels very real, way more real than yesterday and tomorrow. Like yesterday never happened and tomorrow will never come.
I once lived in Detroit and knew we weren't going to stay. While we were there it was very real and felt like it would never end. But as soon as it did, it was like it never happened.
Finances, jobs, family, relationships, health stuff, all cycle thru your life. They're like tools to shape you and give you experience God wants to use later. At the time, though, the shaping feels like squeezing and pinching and cutting and all you want is for it to end -- because today weighs a lot. But when it does end, it's like it never happened.
So since it's going to end, and when it does it's gonna feel like it never happened, it might be worth it to get some permanent benefit out of it. That way it's not, like, wasted, right?
I once was waiting for a call about a job (and I really needed the job) and it was taking forever to hear back from them. In reality, it was only a few days, but it felt longer, because today weighs a lot. While I was waiting, I memorized some words from the Bible -- as soon as I got it memorized, they called and said the job was canceled. All I got out of it was what the words I memorized said:
"God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. It produces a harvest (harvest!) of righteousness and peace in those who have been trained by it...so strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees." -- Hebrews 12
Sometimes it's hard to think of heavy todays as doors to a harvest of righteousness and peace.
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