May 1 - The Grown up World is Foggy

Happy Wednesday. Today is my sweet son’s birthday and like most moms, I’ve been reminiscing about his early years. He was such a sweet baby but he liked to be held. That was a challenge since I already had two little girls, five and three. But God is good and someone had given me one of those “new” packs that could carry a baby on your back or front. That was a game-changer for us. He was a baby who hated sleep, he was so afraid he was missing something—he started sleeping all night when he was four. But he grew up and now, he’s a Godly man, who loves his wife, pays taxes and has a little baby boy of his own—who hates sleep. 

“But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:10-13‬ ‭NLT‬‬

As children we don’t have a good understanding of what we should or should not do. We fight sleep and eating spinach, we run after balls into the street and we run on wet concrete. We think as children. When we grow up, we realize we need to eat right, sleep, and exercise if we want to feel good. We know we have to buy electricity and gas so we can’t buy all the new shoes we want (and some of us have a tough time with that). It’s a grown-up world. 

But even in this grown up world, things are still not so clear. Life is messy, illogical, and rarely easy and it’s sometimes really tough to understand. It’s like we are in a movie but we have only seen pieces of it. But we have the promise that when the time of perfection or completeness has come, we will understand. When we see Jesus face-to-face, we will see it all. 

Until that time, he leaves us with three tools to make it through this cloudy, grown-up world: faith, hope and love. I get excited when the boys come and put their tool belts on—I know something is going to get done! I love those belts. On ours, we need to be carrying faith, hope and love. But that love, it’s got to be the easiest to grab—it’s our “go-to” like Oscar’s hammer. 

Dear Jesus, thank you for loving us so deeply that it spills over and lets us love each other. Thank you for the blessed hope of your coming and for the promise we will see you and we will question no longer. Lord build our faith so that we may serve you more and grow in your ways. We desire to be more like you Lord and feel your presence among us. We worship you, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. Amen and amen. 

Love you dear one, 

Pam