What God Does

The one thing we know for sure is that we do not know what a day holds for us when we rise to meet it.  Those who think they do live in a world inhabited only by fools.  In that Word from God which is filled with very practical Words of wisdom, we hear, "Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.'  Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring...Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.' "  (James 4:13-15) 

Only the Lord knows about the rest of today and tomorrow.  In the midst of these same verses James also writes, "What is your life?  For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."  I remember a church member from some years ago who was an anesthesiologist.  I commented that her job was to put people to sleep for surgery and she quickly replied, "No, my job is to wake them up."  When put to sleep in that manner we want someone to wake us up and when we sleep at night we want someone to awaken us.  The One who does this each morning is God.  He is the One who opens our eyes and who strengthens us for the time that is before us.

We are here, but only for a time.  Like a mist, we are here and then gone.  We are here and then there.  Where is there?  It is where here is.  In both the here and the there part of our life we are with God.  He does not forsake us in this life and His promise to us through Christ is that He will always be with us, even though the darkness of death.  Everything about our life is in the Lord's hands.  To think anything else is to live in the midst of an illusion.  What more do we need each day?  What more do we need when we walk into some of life's unthinkable moments than to know that God is with us, caring for us, and loving us.  It is what God does.