An Unpredictable Ending

Angie and I watch movies on a pretty regular basis. We live near the library and can get some pretty decent flicks for no price at all! We've got a good number under our belt, including documentaries of course ;) and we've noticed a running theme: It seems like in most movies the guy gets the girl, the team wins the championship, the unlikely overcome the odds, the good defeats evil ect. It's so predictable! We've decided that most of our favorite movies are the ones with unpredictable endings. The last minute twist, the cliff-hanger, the are you serious?! kind of endings.

As much as we love an unpredictable ending in a movie, I think in reality we would rather have something we could map out and see all the way through. I think at this point in our "movie" Angie and I can't really see where the plot will unfold next. We have guesses, good ideas, various opportunities, and a truck load of passion, but at this point have no idea where it will take us next.

Thoughts of the future can turn from exciting dreams to an uncertain depression pretty quick believe it or not. Maybe thats why Jesus said only worry about today. Feeling like worrying was taking over I found myself turning to this scripture this morning and was reminded of so many things. Mostly that our christian cliche "God is in control" is rooted in truth. God really IS in control.

Angie and I are learning to thank God for who he is more and asking what next less. And even though it still feels like at any moment the story could take an unsuspected turn, we know that we are holding on to the Rock, our Salvation, the Lamp that lights our path and removes all darkness. Our certainty is in Christ and Him alone.


²⁸ For You will light my lamp;
The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
²⁹ For by You I can run against a troop,
By my God I can leap over a wall.
³⁰ As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

³¹ For who is God, except the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our God?
³² It is God who arms me with strength,
And makes my way perfect.
³³ He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high places.
³⁴ He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁵ You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand has held me up,
Your gentleness has made me great.
³⁶ You enlarged my path under me,
So my feet did not slip.
(Psalm 18:28-36, New King James Version)