Hello friends and family.
Yes I am preparing to head home here very soon, and I’m VERY excited. But I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a distraction from the present moment.
My mind has its hopes set on the day I fly home. I’ve honestly been dreaming of it, along with its ensuing pleasures. However, I’m way too emotionally invested in the future. This is problematic, because according to the last time that I checked, I still can’t time travel.
Let’s further conceptualize this idea. So go ahead, take out your calendar (or visualize), and put your finger on today. It’s May 18th (if you happen to write a check later on today, you’re welcome). Now if you put your other finger June 3rd, you’ll notice that there’s is moderate gap. It’s exactly 16 days (but hey, who is counting?).
You may be mentally frowning right now (or physically). I know that you know how calendars work, and how time passes. But listen, I want you to now imagine that every time I lust after that special day, I also invest a little bit more of myself into it. Every time I fantasize about that day dream about it, I increasingly entrust myself to it.
and what will happen when I reach that day? Will it be all that I imagined? Will it reach the expectations that I have set for it? Maybe. I don’t know, but I sure hope so, because In the depths of my heart, I exuberantly crave its blessings and the coming reconciliation of my family and I.
See, going home to see my family isn’t adherently bad, and being happy to go home is not a sin. It’s okay to desire these things.
What’s not okay, is believing that a day will solve my problems. Because when I put my hope into the future, and began believing it would solve my problems, I simultaneously stopped trying to solve them myself.
I stopped confronting issues, and began escaping them. Instead of crying out to God for help concerning my withdrawal from this place, I’d further invest myself into the future. Subsequently, the more I invested my joy into the future, the more I lost my joy in the present moment. It was a cycle.
This future is not the unseen hope that Jesus has given us. (1 Peter 1 says this)
This is the sad reality of irreverence to God. When we live like a Jesus is not real, we put our hope of deliverance into something that will NEVER deliver us. (Deuteronomy 32:37-38 says this).
Truly, when June 3rd comes, it will be a lovely day.
but it will pass by.
All the days will pass.
All things will pass.
But the Lord remains forever.
Those were my words, but here are the words of our God.
“A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.””
??Isaiah? ?40:6-8?
To summarize, don’t put your hope in something other than God. It will not deliver you forever, and your dependence on it will relieve you of the freedom attained from hope in Christ.
Thanks for reading, and keeping up with my journey on the race this far. I apologize for the quality of my recent blogs. I just haven’t been disciplined with this. I love to share what’s happening, I just hate to sit down and write it. Expect a change.
Thanks again, blessings.
Noah
