How out of control are you feeling right now? So many people are complaining about not feeling in control of their lives. They are used to going out and doing what they wish to do when they wish to do so.
I had to confront this scenario a few years ago and, unlike most people, I don’t have a light at the end of the tunnel as far as when I will walk freely and openly again.
I’m not complaining but am letting you know that I feel this, too. However, for most of you, there is a light at that end. You will be able to leave your houses and head out back into the world again. That is a true blessing.
I am blessed as well because I also have a light waiting for me. The tunnel doesn’t really end with the end of our lives, it is what waits for us afterwards that truly matters.
If you look at it the way that God does, our “tunnel” really is our entire lifetime. The end is where we are when the tunnel ends. There are only two choices, eternal life or eternal death.
What we do while we are in our tunnel is what determines our outcome. Do we accept the salvation of Jesus Christ or do we deny him? It is a yes or no answer. There are no moral equivocations. There are no but maybes. There is no other way to get to eternal life; no works, no good thoughts, nothing but the sacrifice Jesus made and whether we accept it or not.
For those who do chose to accept Jesus, the rest of our time in the “tunnel” of life is when and where we learn more about living like him.
The things that we do, at that point, are done to either glorify God or to glorify the world. Again, there are only two choices. God or the world of sin. Your decision.
If you are like most Christians, you will do both. I’ve said it before and I will again. I sin every day in one form or another. Thankfully, God continues to forgive those sins because he knows that we are ever sinners during this lifetime.
I’m at home and waiting for the day when I see my Savior face to face. I’m not in any hurry to get out of the tunnel but, when the time is here, I will be happy to go.
The tunnel we are in from this virus will lift and people will be happy to leave and get back to life. I hope that everyone is, at a deep spiritual level, fundamentally changed by this experience. I hope that people will look back and see the good that came from this experience and that they made a shift to the better in their lives because of it.
I know that has happened to me because of what I have gone through. If I were given a choice to go back to the “me” that I was three years ago, I would not do so. Even if that meant that there was no pain, no problems breathing and that I could be out and about and visit my family any time I felt like doing so.
The trade-off would not be worth it.
I hope that we will all feel the same once the fear of this virus has passed. It’s possible that the threat will always remain to some extent, so I single out fear because it is what is causing us to freeze in place. Fear is powerful and creates havoc in our minds. It is what causes that terrible feeling of loss of control.
God promises us that he will give us hope instead of fear. All we have to do is believe him and call on him to give us comfort instead of fear and a sense of well-being in spirit when the rest of the world seems to be in a never-ending downward spiral. He will answer and your spirits will soar with the knowledge of his everlasting love for you.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.