Are You For Sure?

We were in the van . . . Again! Our family spends a lot of time there! On the way to “this” — home again from “that.”

Our youngest loves to talk to “mom,” to “dad,” to “whoever will listen!” He “defines” the gift of communication — at least he did at age five.

On one of our many rides we were “listening” when his chatter suddenly became full of questions. Finally, he had to have an answer from Dad on some childish things that was troubling to him. It was an easy response for Dad, something learned through education, or simply from the experiences of life. However, when Dad gave his answer, which was certainly correct, our son wasn’t quite satisfied. “Are you for sure?” he earnestly asked my husband.

I had to laugh! Here was my son, all of five, questioning the

certainty of my husband on a matter. Quick as a wink it came to me.

“Oh,” I said audibly. “That’s what we do to God sometimes!”

Our human, finite minds come to our infinite God with questions. We are seeking Him for answers. The questions seem incredibly large to us. Then, when He gives us the answer — or asks us to trust Him with this one, we get this wrinkled up forehead and puzzled look in our eyes as we look up and say, “are you for sure?”

“Are you for sure?” we may ask, when the answer isn’t exactly what we hoped it would be. When our desires can only find their home in bowed surrender at his feet, echoing the words He spoke in a garden so many years ago, “Not my will, but Yours be done.”

“Are you for sure?” we may wonder, when tears course down our cheeks — wounds open, and pain fresh. When our hands grip the Word until our knuckles turn white with a grip that results in nothing less than death — the death of self.

“Are you for sure?” we ask in astonishment when the trial is over and the breeze of the wind of healing touches our face, filling our souls with a time for celebration and fulfillment. When we find ourselves made alive unto Christ — with His plan being lived through us.

“Are you for sure?”

He’s certainly “for sure!’” He hasn’t been caught by surprise — He knows! He existed before there was an “is!” And He “will be” when “time isn’t!” His name is, “I AM!” He “inhabits eternity,” our verse tells us for today. He dwells in it, lives in it — and we haven’t even experienced it yet! Oh, yes! He’s “for sure!”

By: Janene A. Dubbeld/FGG

Take it with You

“For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.’”

Isaiah 57:15