GOD IS SATISFIED
We stand confused.
He is not.
Circumstances spin out of control.
He’s right on schedule.
Life aches.
He has a purpose.
We fret.
He is calm.
God is not pacing the floors, wondering what’s going on, biting His fingernails, or dissatisfied with our lives and the world in general.
He is often grieved, I’m sure. But He’s never surprised. Never caught off guard. Never strategizing to see how He’s going to smooth out what’s been made crooked now.
His perspective is different from ours.
His ways are higher. God’s at peace.
And He’s satisfied.
One Puritan writer explained it this way.
Our lives seem like a jagged race—a fretful sprint from pillar to post. But at the end of the race, we will turn around and look back.
And all we’ll see is a straight line.
God is satisfied.
Rest in this peace-giving truth.
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this” . . . ‘Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret.” (John 13:7; Psalm 37:7)
By Bethany Hayes
Used by Permission
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