But as for Me

Week Four | Fifty-Two 1.29.21

When it all comes down to it, we really only get to choose one thing in life. And it’s a big thing.

Perspective.

For some, seeing the glass half full comes fairly naturally. And oh how we need these friends in our lives, even if they um “challenge” us a little. :) For others of us (insert my hand slowly raised high), seeing fully takes great discipline and daring faith.

Just like anything that’s worth fighting for.

As some of you may know, the last six weeks have been especially difficult for our family. Even now, there are questions hanging and fears looming as days turn into weeks of heavy hearts and hard questions.

May I be completely honest? I’ve been scared. I’ve been lonely. I’ve been confused. I’ve been exhausted.

Because I’m human. Just like all of us.

And just like Job. A man who clearly was scared, lonely, confused, and exhausted. A man who was angry.

A man who knew how to find his way back to God, by declaring what is true despite what he felt.

“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.” Job ‭19:25‬, NLT

But as for me.

These four words aren’t how *Webster’s defines perspective, but it’s how Job stood up to his failing sight. It’s how he fought for truth, when all hope seemed “pulled up like a tree.”

Job didn’t dismiss his humanity. Neither should you or I. And neither does the God who formed us.

Yet, Job also believed beyond all hope in the One who creates from clay, paints with fire, raises the dead, and makes broken beautiful.

But as for me …

No matter what, no matter when, no matter why,

by the grace of God - I’ll never stop choosing to believe my Redeemer lives and that He gets the last word in His~story. It may not be happily ever after, but it absolutely will be long after.

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Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw the mud, the other saw stars. -Dale Carnegie

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Because maybe seeing stars isn’t so bad after all. ...