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Sunday, June 1, 2014

When Today Invades Your Future

Its June 1, 2014.

4 years ago today my wife's father died very suddenly. The day prior we had returned from living and working in Kuwait – also a sudden, unplanned event.

Life and death march on. There is no reprieve from this cycle, no shifting of this course. Inevitable. Unchangeable. It is what it is.

This truth gives perspective to how we live. We all tend to fill life with an incredible amount of investment in futures that may not come to fruition, often at a cost of missing the moments that we possess today.

May I suggest there is a different pulse to life which we need to join? Jesus Christ taught this when He pointed out that there's enough worry & trouble and unpredictability about tomorrow, so why not just live in and enjoy today? He isn't saying to not plan, just don't live in tomorrow as though it is today. Don't set aside the people and joy and tasks of today for a tomorrow that might never come.

Ultimately, whether you will acknowledge or believe it, God holds tomorrows agenda in His sovereign hand. If and when you wake up tomorrow, you will receive the 'orders of the day'. Only then will you know if the future you envision has another day.

I am learning to let God arrange what is needed to accomplish plans. My life has been one of future thinking. I love ideas, plans, possibilities. Too often the future has been my present and I have lost out on living IN today.

The events of 4 years ago – those sudden invasions into my well ordered plans – have been the best incursion ever.

I am learning to wait and to dwell in today, to be content with what that day brings. My current project. Encompass Partnerships (www.encompasspartnerships.org – website goes live June 6) by this September will have been 4 years in the making. I feel I should be farther down the track. I should have more partnerships. I should be pushing current partners to dream bigger dreams and lay tracks for greater things we envision for the future. I should be acting faster for the fulfillment of our future.

BUT instead I am exercising increased trust and willingness to join the pace of my God vs. pushing my own time-lines. In the process I am discovering (why I am so SLOW!!?) that He puts it all together in ways I could never have planned.

He also keeps His promise that His yoke is easy and His burden is light, because in the end He is walking with me into a future that only He knows.

So go ahead – live and love today. Its all you really have until and unless He grants a tomorrow.

A fellow nomad;

Harv

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