It Is What It Is

In March of 2012 I had the privilege to write on these same five verses. I was living in Eagle River Wisconsin, tucked away in the beautiful north woods. My heart was filled with uncertainty and fear. I recognized verses 35 and 40 as bookends and wrote how life is sandwiched between these two verses. Everything we could want or need we find here. Our hunger is satisfied and our thirst quenched; and all we need to do is LOOK and BELIEVE. 

Fast-forward four years and I am living in Ohio, and while much is changed, the important things are the same.  Jesus is still the bookends of my life. Even when I question why life isn't turning out as I had planned, I can be sure everything is falling together exactly they way God planned. I can take comfort in the reality that tomorrow will also be part of His plan for my life - whatever that might look like. 

Each morning, as I Behold My God, and talk things over with The Great I AM, I am humbled and thankful. I pray this doesn't sound preachy, just honest. It has taken a long time to get to this place of contentment. 

A phrase in the recovery world, "It is what it is," used to irritate the dickens out of me. Now I recognize truth in these 5 words. For me, they mean to take life as it comes, pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17) and put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:11) daily. As the words from a song composed in 1887 tell, Trust and Obey - there is no other way. 

This is only the beginning for those of us who partake of the Bread of Life. While these words are easy to say, and seem almost too good to be true, Grace makes all this possible. 

John 6:39 (MSG) 
"This, in a nutshell, is that will: that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed--not a single detail missed--and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole." 
John 6:35-40