Why Do I Have to Go Through This? A 5-Day Plan to Commit Our Lowest to His Highestಮಾದರಿ

DAY THREE:

Have you ever heard a testimony that just blows you away, leaves you in awe? I have heard many, and most of them are stunningly beautiful not just because you can see God’s Faithfulness in the result, but because you saw His Faithful Hand there the whole time. Throughout the whole story, He still had the pen in His Hand and left no room for error.

When I reside at a slow enough pace to listen in and ask God for more answers, He does not tell me the why behind something happening, but He will speak to me. Your and my stories are the same in the sense that He is writing them, and He is a much better Storyteller, Future Planner, and Author than any of us could ever be. When we lean into the wait, when we ask Him for sweet reminders along the way, He gives them. We can look for evidence of what He is doing all along, no matter how hard or long the season.

I am leaning “further up and further in,”[i] while fixing my eyes on Heaven. I am asking for more sweet reminders throughout my day that no matter how bad it gets I can still see His Goodness in the land of the living. Second Corinthians 4:16–18 states:

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For the light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unsee. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

God has so much for your story, so much He considered it worth dying for. I hope these words gave you fresh wind in your sails and the confidence to dream again. No matter how many dreams get broken in this broken world, Jesus will always be there waiting to remind us He is our number one dream.

[i] C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (New York: HarperTrophy, 1984), 185.