Time and Certainty

Time flies. There is not another thing that is constant but time and how fast it can seem to go. Well that is a bold statement and I know that i would be corrected around here for saying such a general or flippant statement. I love the people around Murlough, and how they help me speak words that are forward and true and I am joked about the literal/figurative or possibilites within each sentence.

It is LATE septemeber. And life is crazy here. John Moxen has now been in the Hospital for almost a month after a minor stroke and problems with his heart. Thoughts of transition and contemplation on the future of this place and leadership have interwoven with continuing about the daily ministry here. It has left a tiring and interesting place where communication comes and goes and leaves it incomplete. I ask for your prayers for John, his heart (literally and figuratively as he longs to further grow Murlough, even at the expense of his body), for Murlough and her vision and movement for Christ.

We all long for clarity and certainty in this word. But we are not promised our next moment let alone the plans down the road. This is a hard thought for us humans to dwell on. But I am planning this! and it will happen! and i will make it happen. I am certain of this. We may say this but it doesnt make it fact, or true. True things remain, and the Bible says there are only three things that remain, Faith, Hope, and LOVE, the greatest is Love. The fact is that none deals with certainty. Love remains, but at its core it is trusting in something that can be uncertain.

Love can go beyond reason and make things that should not be sure, ring true. It is actually an illogical trust in someone or something that defies base reason. When you love and love fully and selflessly it goes beyond circumstance and is not held down by expectations or time constraints or other aspects and obstacles.
Love DOES.
Love IS.
God is love and his love for us is poured out into us and this world. But our fallen and busy and selfish selves distorts things and when we choose one to another the uncertainty can reign. But when Love is, and love is acting above any constraints, it transforms beyond certainty into reality.

Faith is trusting in the unseen and believing in things hoped for. No certainty there. But it transforms so much and permeates all that we do. You have faith that you will not get in an accident on the way to the grocery store or you have faith that THIS time someone will show up on time. But faith as how you live and hold fast to it changes how you interact and gives you an optimistic outlook even in times of uncertainty. Faith in Christ and his Love and Grace transforms so much into who you are and how you interact. It goes beyond the reason of growth or a thought process into who you are.

Trust, a pact in which you enter in where you assume the other party will keep their end of the bargain. Where uncertainty can reign but goodness comes out of allowing all to work out as it will.

These are my thoughts and uncertainty can flood so much and I hate that. But i want to hold fast to the stuff that rings true and firm amidst the uncertainty. I've found none other than Jesus Christ, His love, His Word, and all that comes with believing that I am fallen and selfish and need a savior and Jesus Died for me so that i am experience things beyond this world and the time and uncertainty that come with it.