Reframe
uncertainty through the lens of the certainty of God’s love, and interpret
current events from the perspective of promise that is never revoked. What are
the images of life you are holding on to that create false narratives? What is
God saying that the headlines aren’t declaring? What is anxiety communicating
that the Comforter is not responding to?
He can answer all your unknowns in a blink but he loves you by giving you a choice of response. If you are allowing uncertainty in the world to determine how useful you are to God, maybe it’s time to rethink who and what is informing your value and worth.
We are never too old, experienced, or responsible to need the certainty of our heavenly Father’s love. And never too old, experienced, or responsible to misinterpret silence from God during seasons of uncertainty as unloving. Silence rings as wisdom with the luxury of time and distance. Reframing uncertainty through the lens of being deeply loved and fully known changes the way we translate adversity in beginnings and what I would come to define as a tumultuous middle.
He can answer all your unknowns in a blink but he loves you by giving you a choice of response. If you are allowing uncertainty in the world to determine how useful you are to God, maybe it’s time to rethink who and what is informing your value and worth.
We are never too old, experienced, or responsible to need the certainty of our heavenly Father’s love. And never too old, experienced, or responsible to misinterpret silence from God during seasons of uncertainty as unloving. Silence rings as wisdom with the luxury of time and distance. Reframing uncertainty through the lens of being deeply loved and fully known changes the way we translate adversity in beginnings and what I would come to define as a tumultuous middle.
- Shelly Miller,
Searching for Certainty: Finding God in the Disruptions of Life, 2020.
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