The Unknown is one of those topics that's really scary to most. Whether it be the vastness of what space is, the depths of the oceans, a black hole, life after death, eternity, our own souls, or what may lay ahead in our future. Life is certainly full of questions we will never find an answer too, but seek so hard to grasp. I'm writing this looking at the topic of our future. We will never know the future, no matter how hard we try to get it, understand it, peer into it; it's simply there, we know what the future is, we understand the concept, but it's something we can never know until it's the present and that is a beautiful gift.
Living a life that is a part of God, a part of his desire for your life, is the most beautiful thing. When we do that, when we step into his plan, the future falls into place. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying, life won't be perfect just because of that, it won't be easy. Life will always be difficult because we live in a broken world that seems to be drifting further and further away from God, but when we step into his plan, there is a purpose and a life with a purpose is worth so much more. It's a perfect example for those around us. When God asks you to step into the unknown, the way he asked Peter to do when he got out out of the boat to go to Jesus walking on water, that's a powerful example for our lives. You may be walking on water right now and don't realize it. You may be doing the impossible in your life simply because God asked you to move and you are focused on him. When we set our focus on him, our faith is strengthened! I just watched a great movie I recommend to everyone called "The Giver." You can watch it on Netflix. There's a scene towards the end of the movie,where Jeff Bridges, who is The Giver, looks at his co-star, The Receiver and says, "You have the courage, let me give you the strength." So often when God says, "Here ya go, this is my desire for your life!" We have the courage to start, but we don't wait for him to give us the strength to continue on the journey.
Sometimes we must prepare, we must count the costs, we must ask God for the strength to keep going. We all hit those points where we struggle, where our hearts are tired, where our spirit is weak; those moments do not mean we've failed, it doesn't mean it's over, it doesn't mean you've given up, it means we have to let go of what we believe God told us and lay it at his feet, at the cross. We weren't meant to carry it by ourselves, we weren't meant to go on this journey alone. In those moments, it's time to let God revive the parts that were him and get rid of the tares we picked up along our journey. Sometimes those tares seem like truth, they seem like the things we were meant to carry, they feel like something God gave us, our burdens. When in reality, they aren't. They aren't from your papa, they aren't his desire for you, you were never meant to carry them. So why do we fight to lay everything down? Is it the fear of letting go of what we have come to know and embracing the unknown? I think believing in Jesus has a lot more to do with the unknown, and having faith in what God is doing, than we will ever realize. Sometimes he asks us to do something, and we have no idea what the outcome looks like, no idea where he is leading us, but we have to have faith and take a leap into that vast unknown, with the knowledge he's there to catch us.
This is something that I've been walking through a lot the past 6 months or so, even more in the last month. There's something I will hopefully be able to share with you all in the next few weeks, a big unknown. It's something that doesn't really make sense to me right now or for my future, but God is crazy about me and only desires the best. I just have to find my courage, so he can give me the strength.
Much Love,
Gabriel Sutton
