When I wrote these words they were my “now”. When you read these words they appeared before you in your “now”. But as each word “was” written or read, it is no longer “now”. Each word became what was. That sounds like gibberish. But it speaks of something vastly important.
We may remember but we cannot re-live. It is only give unto man that he may live in what is. Why then do we all struggle so hard to live in what was? And how do we know that our memory is clear? How do we know that we remember with fullness of understanding?
Who can change what has been done? We may do again so that we may rectify what we found wrong. But that does not change what has been done. It only “does” again.
The past and the future are equally beyond our grasp. In our memories we are helpless. And the future looms as darkness. Man is utterly helpless.
God in His wisdom created time; moments of “IS” come and go relentlessly. Like a singular spike in an eternal line of doing. Who has ears to hear this? Who is willing to understand?
If a man has peace in what was it is because God has had mercy and forgiven. If a man is not afraid of what is coming it is because he trusts the promise of the Holy One.
Anxiety lives just behind us and just in front. But true peace is found in what is. As long as we strive to live in what we remember we will face anxiety. As long as we brace ourselves for what comes next anxiety dresses us as a garment. But peace is found in faith alone.
The name of the sovereign God is “I am that I am”. He alone owns what was. And He does with it what pleases Him. He alone owns what will be. And He alone does what pleases Him to do. Why then do his people live looking backward or straining forward?
Since we cannot change what was, we are forced to either live in anxiety or receive His peace. And since we cannot know what comes we are forced either to live in anxiety or to receive His peace. Both require faith.
God is. Therefore if we follow him we must also live in what is. To do otherwise only brings doubt. And if that is the case he is right to refer to us as “ye of little faith”.
Leave what was in the hands of he who is. Likewise leave what will be in the hands of he who is. Strive only to do in faith. In this you will find immeasurable peace. In this you will come to understand that his burden upon you is light indeed.
Who can decipher the deeds he has done according to what is true? And who has known the mind of God that he is sure of what will happen next? If we are that tiny then why do we not believe?
God alone gives true understanding of these things. Philosophers and poets have given their whole life to understand these things and to write them. But those who are in Christ Jesus find themselves living them effortlessly.
Let the world work with their hands to provide what will be. Their folly is evident. Let the world build their filthy temple on the foundation of what was. They build on nothing. But let God’s people understand. We do not build at all. We trust in the Sovereign Lord. His name is Christ Jesus.
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