Keeping Our Eyes Upon Jesus In A World Of Uncertainty

Sometimes life can seem challenging, lonely, and dark.  We live in a fallen world that seems to be plummeting deeper into an abyss of chaos.  It can be all to easy for us to collapse in fear and enter into a deep state of hopelessness, but we must not do so even if it is extremely tempting to do so in such a time as this.

We believers in Jesus Christ must remember that God is still on the throne.  God is still in control.  We must guard the truth of His Holy Word, the Bible, and we must lean upon the Holy Spirit to discern truth from error.  There are many false teachings and many false teachers in our world today.  We must be students of the Bible and we need to adhere to it's teachings about God and His principles and apply them to our lives.

We find it hard to trust people in our day and age, but we must learn that we can always trust God.  Sometimes people fail us and sometimes we fail others whether we mean to or not.  We are not a perfect people, but thankfully God is perfect and He loves us with a deep unconditional love.  He invites each one of us into a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ.

I like what Proverbs 3:5-6 says,

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make your paths straight."

Sometimes it is not easy for us to trust the Lord.  We know we should and we know that all things are possible with Him, but some situations just seem to hit us so hard that we feel so very vulnerable and unable to trust anyone let alone God.  

We must come to God in our despair and difficulty with faith in Him and His abilities.   We are weak and powerless on our own, but our God is Mighty and all Powerful.  There is nothing that is to difficult for Him to handle.  That can be a hard concept for us to grasp at times especially when we are facing an uncertain future.  In those hard moments of life we need to draw nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ and have our focus Him.

A few months ago I had an MRI that showed that I have a growth on my pituitary gland.  I was referred to a doctor down state.  Well, just to update everyone, I am still waiting to get scheduled for an appointment down there.  I called the office to the place where I was referred to and they apologized and said I was on the list to be scheduled.  So, I am still waiting and trusting the Lord with that.

A few weeks ago my mother had her yearly mammogram and they discovered something.  They called her in to have another one and they performed an ultrasound as well.  There is something there and now they want to get a biopsy of it down state.  The doctor that she was referred to was the same doctor that took care of her when she was in the hospital down state 20 years ago.  I will tell that full story another time perhaps, but I am starting to see God working already in certain ways early on in this process.

Sometimes it is hard to see His work in a world of darkness, but He is still doing things that only He can do.  We need to remember that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.  Sometimes the things we go through aren't good at all, but the Lord will use those difficult things to draw us nearer to Him and make us more to be like His Son, Jesus.

I would ask that you keep my mother in your prayers and myself and our family.  Let's never lose sight of how great our God is.  May we continue to keep our eyes upon Jesus for our help comes from Him.  

Lord,

We praise Your Name.

Thank You for being with us through hard times and pain.

Help us to see Your work in our lives.

Help us to love one another as you love us.

Pour out Your Spirit upon all of those who have placed their faith in You.

In Jesus Name we pray,

Amen.