This morning as I backed out of the garage to head to work I realized that the fog was much thicker than I had anticipated, much! As I approached the highway from the back road I really thought the fog would not be quite so bad, but it was just as bad on the highway. Every vehicle on the road was traveling cautiously (thankful). It was no use trying to see any further than approximately 50 yards out, that's seemed to be the limit on visibility. So I continued on, a safe distance behind the car in front of me. I began to relate this to my walk with Christ. I thought about how He asks us to trust Him, even when we don't know what's coming up on the road ahead. We can't see the entire journey miles ahead, but He wants to know if we love Him enough to trust Him with the next 50 yards, and then the next 50, and the next.
I thought about my life in 50 yard segments and realized how they ebbed and flowed. Some were filled with full bliss and some were completely saturated in grief. Some 50 yard segments were filled with struggle, some with strife, and some with victory. Most of them were determined by choices that I had made, but many had been guided by circumstances that I'd had no control over.
But here's the "thing": Jesus walked with me through every one of them. Even when I didn't think He did, even when I felt completely alone in whatever I was dealing with, even when I chose to ignore Him, He did not ignore me. He was right there the entire time. Really? you might be asking, how can I know that you might wonder? Because I believe in His word and it tells me that NOTHING can separate me from the love of God, nothing! (Romans 8)
I want to wrap this post up with some good news. Some news that someday we'll get to see the whole bazillion yards, the entire ride when we meet Jesus face-to-face in the flesh. And I'm guessing that when that happens I'll do something like smack my own forehead and say, "Ok, now I get it. Now I understand why you took me 50 yards at a time."
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! 1 Corinthians 13:12 MSG
Britt Nicole "All The Time"
