Uncertainty: Room For God to Work

It rocks our world and makes us stop in our tracks.

It makes us question everything we took for granted.

It blinds us to anything else in this world.

It’s called uncertainty.

I recently heard uncertainty likened to a river we swim in, and I think the analogy fits quite well. The water is often too deep to stand in, so we can never get our footing. The times when the current is strongest are often the times we are most tired of fighting. There are obstacles we cannot see coming, so we end up battered and bruised. It’s hard, and it makes me want to quit when I don’t see an end in sight.

But how many giants in our faith had certainty in front of then when they went out to follow God? We aren’t alone in our battle, and we aren’t the first people to fight uncertainty. Hebrews 11 has a list of people whose great accomplishment in life – according to Scripture – was their faith that made them follow God when uncertainty pressed them on every side. From a human perspective, none of these people had a sure thing in front of them; faith isn’t logical. It doesn’t make any sense to the person looking in from the outside, and it often doesn’t make sense to the person living it. So why? Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” We accept His promises because there is the certainty in the fact that He is the God of all authority, knowledge, power and love.

There are so many times in life I say to God, “You want me to do WHAT?” He purposefully gives me more than I can handle, to show me that He can handle it – this blog is an example, and so are a few relationships that I have. One thing I’ve learned is the greater the uncertainty, the more room there is for Him to show up. He wants me to surrender my life to Him so He can do something awesome with it.