Latest world race phenomenon= the way I view travel time. Yesterday we were informed that we would have a three hour car ride to our ministry site- pre-world race I think this would have annoyed me. Post-world race it’s like a get out of jail free card- a little window of time where nothing is expected-where i-pod alone time is at its prime-naps are more than acceptable-this priceless pocket of time is like a mini debrief/refuel. Almost like that rain blog I wrote about the other day, where we can’t do anything about not being able to do anything.
Anyways- I chose to utilize this freebee to escape by listening to something- flipping through my i-pod I saw an Andy Stanley sermon that was dated exactly two years ago to the day, so I thought maybe it was a sign that it would say something cool. Turns out, I had actually already heard this sermon exactly two years ago and remember where I was when I heard it-not just where I was physically, but emotionally, mentally, etc-kind of like when you hear a song and it gives you the “that’s so raven” time travel moment and brings you back to an specific time and place that you remember everything about.
I remember that two years ago on March 8th I was hopeless and the sermon just happened to be on hope. It was way timely again because of where I'm at. The whole thing was about where we put our hope, and I realized that I’ve been putting my hope in wrong places lately- those places are falling big time, which makes me realize how much hope I had in them…like myself- I have put a lot of hope in myself and I think I’ve credited myself way too much for getting through things in my life. Lately I’ve been falling and I realized how much hope I’ve been putting in me and my ability to fix myself. The sermon talked about those people who go through horrific problems and still somehow have hope-those people that experience insane loss and still have some supernatural peace- that the reason they seem to “get it”- that something unattainable that a lot of the world doesn’t grasp- is that their hope is in God-that when the s hits the fan, it doesn’t matter because their hope wasn’t there to begin with. Their hope is in the only One that’s not decaying in the world and that might not change the circumstance, but reminds them that God is certain in the uncertainty.
Needed to hear that for that day’s road trip- it restored some hope, and reminded me where I should be putting my hope, which changed my perspective for the better-yes please…
