The Best Kind of Uncertainty
Ecclesiastes 11:5 You don’t know where the wind blows. And you don’t know how a baby grows in its mother’s womb. In the same way, you don’t know what God will do—and he makes everything happen.
As we think about the future, you and I, we find ourselves in something of a quandary. On the one hand, we long for certainty. We really do want to know how things’ll turn out. But on the other, do you really want to know for instance, exactly when your time on this earth will expire? I think not.
So we live in this no-man’s-land, so to speak, between our desire for certainty and yet shunning the notion that our future may be mapped out in a completely unchangeable way; that nothing we can do will change the outcome.
I wish sometimes – honestly I do – that God would just stump up and tell me what He has planned. How’s this going to turn out? And what about that? How’s He going to make that thing work out? The reality is though, things just don’t work like that; He doesn’t work like that. As wise old King Solomon pointed out some three thousand years ago …
Ecclesiastes 11:5 You don’t know where the wind blows. And you don’t know how a baby grows in its mother’s womb. In the same way, you don’t know what God will do—and he makes everything happen.
There are so many things that we simply don’t understand and, what’s more, probably never will. In the same way, we just don’t know what God is going to do … and yet, He’s the one who makes everything happen.
And that’s a good thing. A very good thing.
Because as 19th Century Christian philosopher Henri Frédéric Amiel once remarked, “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” And when we hope in God, that hope will never disappoint, no matter how tenuous, how uncertain our future may seem. In Him, your hope is assured.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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