Set Your Heart on God

Week Three | Fifty-Two 1.22.21

Twenty-Twenty turned out to be quite the history-making year. And Twenty-Twenty One, well she’s come in with quite the inauguration, literally and figuratively. In addition, the unwelcomed and all-too familiar Covid-19 has slowly but surely made ~ and is making ~ its whirl through almost my entire family (my boys, my parents, my in-laws, and me) over the last five weeks. There have been ER visits and hospitalizations, and many days of overwhelming weariness and questions. 

And I bet you can relate on some similar level. Not one of us has been untouched by these days that have felt like decades.

When life gets overwhelming, I tend to curl in quiet ~ desperate to make sense of what feels so out of control.

Because the truth is, turning the calendar page doesn’t change anything except the date. As Pastor Mark Batterson says, “If we want to change our life, we have to change our story. We have to flip the script. And the only cure for our script is Script-ure.”

Like in the book of Job. This man who had been knocked down and nearly out by one senseless tragedy after another. And though he lamented and complained and pleaded with God, he never denied Him. He ultimately never lost hope in the One who works in ways we cannot see. His heart was set on the One whose purposes are

unstoppable,

unshakable,

unfailing,

and unimaginable.

“Do you think you can explain the mystery of God? Do you think you can diagram God Almighty? God is far higher than you can imagine, far deeper than you can comprehend. …

If you set your heart on God and reach out to Him, your life will be brighter than the noonday; it’s darkness will be like the morning. And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest.” (Job 11)

And this, THIS, is the kind of Story worth flipping-living, even and especially when life is hard.

He never wastes a thing. I’m counting on it.