Along for the Ride
"Yes, indeed - God is my salvation. I trust, I won't be afraid. God - yes God! - is my strength and song, best of all, my salvation!"
Isaiah 12:2 MSG
My Aunt Toni gave me a little devotional when I was pregnant with the triplets. Reading it became a regular part of the routine to pass time for my 11 weeks of bedrest. One of the entries comes to mind again and again and again.
It seems especially relevant after conversations like one I had on Saturday. A friend stopped by, and as we walked down to the barn to watch the girls feed their lambs he said, “I’m here. I know God has a plan for me. I just wish he would tell me WHAT it is!”
Bedrest felt a lot like that. Not able to be up, and doing, and preparing. Unsure of what was really coming, for my body, my mind, my marriage, my babies. Maybe it will feel relevant to something in your life right now, too:
“Two-year old Max was securely buckled in his seat in Grandpa’s pickup truck. He was waiting for Dad and Grandpa to stop talking so he could go for a ride. His mother poked her head in the truck and said, “Where are you going, Max?” “Not know,” he replied, raising his little arms.
“What are you going to do?” She asked. “Not know,” came the answer again.
“Well,” she asked, “do you want to come back in the house with me?”
“No!” Came the quick reply as he settled himself more firmly, waiting to begin his adventure.
“That little boy taught me a lesson I needed right then,” his mother, Sheryl, told me later. She was soon to give birth to another baby, and she had reason to be unsure of what was ahead. “He didn’t know where he was going or what he was going to do, but he trusted Grandpa completely. Max’s confidence in Grandpa is the kind of trust I need in my heavenly Father.
If you are in one of those periods of life when you don’t know what lies ahead, or you don’t know what to do about some critical issue, it might help to think about it that way. God wants you to have the confidence in him to say, “I will trust and not be afraid” (Isaiah 12:2). - Dave Egner (Cherish: Quiet Moments for Moms and Dads, 2007).
Where in life are you along for the ride right now, unsure of the destination but buckled in all the same?
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