An unknown future with a known God....

The quote of my day has to be from the devotional that I went through today. At the very end Corrie Ten Boom said this; "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God". It took me a few times of reading this to just start to put it all together. And when I look at everything in the past few months, I look at how gracious and glorious our God truly is. I feel like that within the past few days things have started to just really fall into place. There is no other way to describe it other than the fact that I have put this all in God's hands. And then this quote...how amazing it is. How much it was needed to be heard today. The timing of our God is so perfect and amazing.

There have been a few things that I have been thinking about since I have a lot of time to do just that. One of the things that I ahve really enjoyed thinking of is how amazing it would have been to be Ezekiel and to see God. But not really "see" Him since He is a bright fiery light that is blinding. And the only thing that Ezekiel is capable of is to just drop to his knees. I started thinking about how awesome it would be to see that. And then after a conversation with such an amazing friend there were more parts to this that I never even considered. The fact that God would consider us worthy to even be in the presence of Him would be so awesome. But what if these occurunces happen all around us, but we are too busy and too consumed with ourselves that we don't even notice them. And God is screaming out loud saying "You want signs and you want to see me, and I have been here showing you, but you have not paid any attention!" I wonder how many of those times I have passed up or neglected.

But then after analyzing that, I then come back to this summer in Poland of Exodus 34:14 - for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. *record scratch* Whoa! Here again is this proof of God taking on another name, this time Jealous. The word for this name of God is El Qanna. This is so profound because the past two ideas tie in with this. God wants our all, he wants our attention, our focus, the glory that we are supposed to give Him (the glory that we were created for ) and He wants it NOW. So if I want to not be afraid of an unknown future, I give it all to God and allow Him to move. If I want to experience and see and be in the knee dropping presence of God, I must give Him my all, must put all my attention and focus on Him. And maybe, maybe He would find me worthy to reveal Himself. But I think that He has already revealed Himself and has shown Himself all too many times, but I/we have been so blinded. So consumed with everything else.

So in the midst of all this thinking the common factor that keeps coming up is the future. I know that myself I constantly am thinking about the future. Or atleast I was before Poland. But there was something amazing that happened in Poland, and I think it was the culture of Poland that really helped this out. The thing that happened was that I do not worry about the future, don't think too far ahead and sometimes do not even think of it all. Because in Poland you just take each day as it comes. Each day is a blessing from God, make the best of it. If you spend most of your day thinking about the future, how much do you miss out on in the now? It is amazing to not worry too much about the future when you know that God has complete control of it in the first place. Matthew 6:34 says "Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

I have been reading Erwin McManus' book "Seizing Your Divine Moment" and have been really moved by the words that have been placed in there. I think it is amazing that I bought this book about a year ago, and right after from getting back from Poland I decide to finally read it. The first chapter I am blown away at the wisdom that is poured out. The idea that there are moments around us, that we must make the step to take them and not hesitate is so uplifting and encouraging. But what is more encouraging is the idea that regardless of what moment I take advantage of, whether it is backed up by God or not, the Sovereignty of God is far greater than any doofus mistake I could make. And that right there is what comforts me.

I am amazed at how God can move so much in one little person's life. But not only that...but that He can move through millions of little peoples lives. Astounding to think how amazing and big and Jealous our God is. He is so good. Praise and glory be lifted up to Him. Forever and ever.