The unknown can be frightening, it can cause ourselves to try and take hold of things that we ultimately don’t have control over. Our tendency is to take control over every situation when we aren’t certain of the outcome. For me, this whole process has been sort of “unknown”. But what I have come to realize is we can’t know everything. It’s just how God made it to be. If God made everything known to us, we wouldn’t see our need for Him. We would think that we could do everything in our own power. But that is not how it works.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” -Isaiah 55:9
When we don’t understand how God is working in certain situations it is because many times we forget that God is working everything together for His good. Even in those times of questioning and unknown, God is always at work.
I just recently was reminded that I am on a waiting list for my route to India, Nepal, Guatemala, and Swaziland. And although this leaves me uneasy because I really want to go on this route, I know that God is working it all together in His timing and for His good purpose. There is this beautiful story I would like to remind you of and it goes like this…
“Imagine yourself as a living house.
God comes in to rebuild the house.
at first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.
He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on;
you knew that those jobs needed doing so you are not surprised.
but presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominable
and does not seem to make any sense.
What on earth is He up to?
the explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one
you thought of-
throwing out a new wing here, putting an extra floor there, running up towers,
making courtyards.
you thought you were being made into a decent little cottage:
but He is building a palace.
He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
-C.S. Lewis
This quote reminds me of God’s goodness and even when we are unsure of what He is doing, we can have faith that He is creating a living palace in our lives. However it may be, He is at work in each and every one of our lives. Lean in to it. Ask for the eyes to see it. Because He is here and He is never leaving our side. He is breaking down those old walls, and building a beautiful palace.
