You don’t have to understand
Notes from a beach trip I’ll never forget:
While I am enjoying my beautiful family, I’ve also been much in thought… and grieving.
Yesterday morning, I began the day in the Word. I learned this from my parents. When I stay with them, I always look forward to reading with them and hearing their thoughts on the Scripture. Several years ago, I got my husband Jason a One Year Bible, and now we are carrying on this same tradition. So many times we have read a passage that speaks to the season we’re in and gives us the peace and strength we needed for that exact moment. It makes my heart so happy to think that our children will observe this over the years and hopefully carry it on with their spouses one day.
I depend on His Word. I knew yesterday I NEEDED it.
Later, I spent some time sitting in the ocean. I don’t know that there’s anything in this world that displays the majesty and power of God’s creation more than the sea. As the waves came in and out, I sat in awe of God. He whispered a message to me: you don’t have to understand in order to trust.
I can study the ocean all day long, but I’ll never understand its depths. I could never wrap my simple mind around how God could speak something so mighty into existence. The moving in and out of the tides, the beauty, the power, it is all beyond me. And, yet, I can trust that the waves will move in and out. The tides will come and go.
The same is true of the seasons that come and go in our lives. We don’t always understand; in fact, we more often do not understand them than we do. But we can trust.
I don’t understand how we’re going to get through this tide we’re currently in, but I trust that God will sustain us through it. I don’t understand why this wave has to come now, when it seems way too early for this tide in my mind, but I trust that He makes all things beautiful in His time. I don’t know how we’ll ever get through this grief, but I trust that joy will come in the morning.
God reminded me of these promises yesterday as I sat in the waves He created. Then this morning, as I opened His beautiful Word, I read, “You are the one who rules the oceans. When their waves rise in fearful storms, you subdue them.”
His Word is always timely. It is alive. It has been from the very beginning, and it will be without end.
I do not understand how God always has the message I need on each day that I need it. But I trust that He will continue to speak to my heart.
And if a God who spoke the mighty sea into existence cares enough to make sure I get whispered reminders of His promises that I need in the exact moment I need them, then I can trust that somehow, someway, we will be okay.
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