G. Surrat tells a story about a man who went to visit a teenage boy who had been in an accident and undergone multiple surgeries over several year's time, enduring months of hospital stays. Every day brought new pain and declining chances of that changing anytime soon. As he spoke with the young man, the conversation turned to God's role in his situation. Did the young man think God had been unfair to him in all this?
Bracing himself for the worst possible response, what the man heard instead was, 'Not at all. The way I see it, God has all eternity to make it up to me.'
Yikes (Interpretation = Yikes!).
'My eternal address is not where I'm staying right now.'
What if you and I really believed that? What if it was our default perspective, not one we had to scratch and claw to get to?
You're probably way better than me in this, but I live far too many days without an eternal awareness. My eternal address is not where I'm staying right now.
There's more, friends - and God is good. Despite the pendulum swings and the horse kicks and the dog &*@#, God is good. Good doesn't really catch the spirit. English is so limiting for this purpose.
We know He's better than all the bad things, but He's so much better than even the good things. Joelene and I have been blessed over the years to have had some of the most incredible life experiences. We've witnessed the birth of three children and two grandchildren; we've sat on the beach at night and listened to the ocean in the Caribbean and Thailand and Italy; we've seen Mt. Everest; we've walked where Jesus walked in Israel and seen the majestic Rockies; we've walked our beautiful daughters down the aisle, choking back tears and so much more ...
But to think that the very best of those don't even make the top One Million List of what God has planned for us at our eventual address ... well ... that's just a great big Yikes!
And be blessed.
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