So That's Why - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

So That's Why

- Now Think On This

by Steve Martin

“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 Cor 13:12 THE MESSAGE)

You have, as I have, many times thought, or even said out loud, “Why?” “Why did it happen that way?” “What was the purpose in me having to go through that?” “I don’t get it. Why did it have to happen to me?” Surely there was a better way, right Lord?

I like how The Message translation of the Bible puts it, how we are “squinting in a fog, peering through a mist.” We try hard to do what is right. We press on as Paul said he did, in Phil 3:12-14, “Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (NASU)

But sometimes we still don’t get it, or see it happening as expected.

There were situations that my kids had to deal with, and thus as their parents, so did Laurie and I, that we didn’t comprehend. Even as we pressed on to seek the Lord’s answer, sometimes it didn’t come as we liked, or as soon as we wanted, or as it had been prophesied it would. Even though we prayed diligently and continually for them, there were occasions when we just didn’t know exactly what to tell them, or what would bring the understanding we sought from the Lord.

It was as if He would say simply, “In time you will know.”

We don’t have full knowledge of what the Lord does, when He will do it, or how He will do it. I know that even ones who have known and walked with the Lord for years (personally true in my life) don’t have all the answers. But what I do know is that the Lord wants us to keep seeking Him, keep knocking at the door, keep letting Him know, or rather ourselves, that we are totally dependent on His daily interaction with us. He likes that. So He does what He does.

It is also one good reason why He has given us apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors, as written, “for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:12-13 NASU) We are not meant to go it alone. We have been created to need one another, rely on one another, walk together in common purpose, so that we can obtain more understanding in all His ways and purposes.

There will come a time when we’ll look back, probably years from now, and say, “Yes, NOW I know why that went that way!” Until that time happens, that moment (some call it an “Ah ha! Now I get it!” moment) when it is revealed to us, when the fog has lifted, we’ll see the immense wisdom that the Lord had in directing and guiding us, His beloved people.

In our consistent time of daily prayer, Bible reading, and meetings with gathered believers, what the Lord is doing in our lives, and why, will be more fully known. In our efforts to seek and understand, we will receive understanding, as He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

Then we will know the “whys”!

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

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Now Think On This #183 “So That Is Why” by Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2015 (10.05.15) Monday at 5:00 am in Charlotte, NC

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