Saturday night a couple hundred folks gathered to pray for those in our community impacted by the upcoming changes at NASA. The news reports say as many as 7,000 people in our area could lose their jobs. Add to that a sagging economy, health care reform and a just all the personal stuff people are facing these days and you get a feeling of insecurity. It's hard to predict what the future holds for us. What will happen to our economy, our churches, our schools, and our families if things continue the way they seem headed now? Will we have jobs? More importantly, those who have given their lives to human space flight are wondering even if they have a "job" will it be for anything that remotely matters. Questions abound. Uncertainty looms.
As I was praying Saturday night for all of us facing these "uncertain times" I had a startling revelation: Isn't all our time uncertain?
James 4:13-14 pokes at our well intentioned plans for the future and reminds us that all of life is a mist.
Perhaps God has us living in such a time of overt uncertainty to remind us that all of life is uncertain except for the life which we find in our sovereign and loving God?
I'm not going to give up planning for and working toward the future. I don't think James is asking us to sit on our hands and just let life happen. But I do think he's inviting us to hold our illusions of certainty in an open hand before a God who is the only one we can really count on for sure.
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