In These Uncertain Times

In These Uncertain Times

No words have become cliché faster than "in these uncertain times". We can see and hear them everywhere reminding us just how crazy the world has become in less than half a year. Usually, proceeding the new adage, comforting words of certain assurance in someone or some organization in which we can place our confidence. I get it, we all just want to to get back to “normal” .

But the truth is,  our “normal “ was

never a time of certainty.

Seriously, with wars, diseases, famines, when has there ever been certain times for man?

From long ago, a seduced mankind forfeited their security in a lust for knowledge. Evidence of this is found in the risk of destroying ourselves has increased directly proportional with our advancement in knowledge. We play God and with every benevolent advancement comes sinister applications. Then  declare a God , many can’t believe in, evil for allowing us to play with the universe’s building blocks with a knowledge of evil He warned us not to obtain. So, in losing our trust in God, for our own mistakes, we misplaced our trust into the worst possible place . Ourselves. Now, thousands of years latter, in our diversity, beautiful as it is, we have placed our confidence into everything except the only one who could give it. 

So, if things ever get back to normal, where we might die from anything from mosquitos bites to lightning strikes, the only “certain” time we all have is our check out time. In our normal, everything, even time itself as

we understand it, has a designated ending. 

In the meantime, here’s some comforting thoughts.

The Bible teaches we were made “for such a time as this”. Even if we are uncertain about the times, God isn’t. He designed us precisely for this time and placed us here for a purpose.

These uncertain times were part of His plan. Even if we can’t see it yet, these times will bless His people and advance His Kingdom.

Jesus promises to be with us “always, even to the end of the age”. The end of the age, like when time runs out and can’t be quantified except to call it forever. God never leaves or forsakes His people and is causing all things to work together for the good of His people. 

Jude 

24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

In this life, the world will never provide us with times of certainty. If we follow Jesus, we can have hope in this life for and endless time of certainty in the next.

I pray He holds you up, that you find peace and purpose in following Him, in these uncertain times.