Fifth grade
A couple weeks ago while walking down the sidewalk, I overhear a guy talking to his friend. As they approach me walking the opposite way down the walk than me, the guy says to his friend, "Fifth grade was the best year of my life!"
What? Fifth grade was the best year of your life? I really wanted to hear more but that is all I caught as they walked past me. I hoped there was a lot more to the guy's story. He looked to be in his mid-twenties and I thought how sad it would be if in reality 25 wasn't his best year, 11 was. Granted, I didn't hear the rest of the story, but it did get me thinking, how many of us believe our best years are behind us. What about tomorrow? What about today?
If we believe in God; that life with God is a constant movement into the future; that Jesus came to give those who follow him life and not a mundance religious life, but an exciting life lived by faith, then our best days are not behind us. Our best days are now and tomorrow.
Do we live in the past? Do we live looking backward thinking the mess or pain we experience today is our "lot in life." Woe is me. But what if the pain we feel today is momentary, preparation for greater things to come. As a friend of mine says, "Short term pain for long term gain." If we see our struggles as a means to a greater end, then we live by hope and trust in a God who is bigger than today and who sees tomorrow. If we live thinking that the current pain or unfortunate circumstances are an end in themselves, then we are most to be pitied. Why go on?
Ahhh...but Jesus comes to renew, refresh and move us into the future. God has dreams/plans for our lives, plans to give us hope and a future (as it says in Jeremiah). Go with God. Into the future...and beyond.
Keep your chin up.
What? Fifth grade was the best year of your life? I really wanted to hear more but that is all I caught as they walked past me. I hoped there was a lot more to the guy's story. He looked to be in his mid-twenties and I thought how sad it would be if in reality 25 wasn't his best year, 11 was. Granted, I didn't hear the rest of the story, but it did get me thinking, how many of us believe our best years are behind us. What about tomorrow? What about today?
If we believe in God; that life with God is a constant movement into the future; that Jesus came to give those who follow him life and not a mundance religious life, but an exciting life lived by faith, then our best days are not behind us. Our best days are now and tomorrow.
Do we live in the past? Do we live looking backward thinking the mess or pain we experience today is our "lot in life." Woe is me. But what if the pain we feel today is momentary, preparation for greater things to come. As a friend of mine says, "Short term pain for long term gain." If we see our struggles as a means to a greater end, then we live by hope and trust in a God who is bigger than today and who sees tomorrow. If we live thinking that the current pain or unfortunate circumstances are an end in themselves, then we are most to be pitied. Why go on?
Ahhh...but Jesus comes to renew, refresh and move us into the future. God has dreams/plans for our lives, plans to give us hope and a future (as it says in Jeremiah). Go with God. Into the future...and beyond.
Keep your chin up.
posted by Mike Weaver at 5:29 PM
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