Finding peace as we face the unknown

Sometimes I wonder how everything will work out when so much is going wrong. 

Do you ever feel the same?  When I get bogged down with some of the stresses of life, it is easy for me to lose hope. I had this feeling last week while I was driving and I heard a voice in my head that whispered to me, “Lisa, this is MY plan (meaning God’s plan), not your plan.” As I thought about what my plan would look like, I realized that my plan would be based on my fears of the unknown, so I would probably always choose to make things work out immediately. This is not a good plan if experience is what is needed to become like God intended for us.

Thankfully, God knows all things. He knows the beginning from the end. He knows how to succor his children so things will work out for our good and not just make us temporarily comfortable. His perspective is much better than mine, and so is His plan. I think the voice in my head was reminding me that I can trust God and His plan because he can see a lot more than I can and if I trust Him, I can have the needed peace in my life as I face the unknown. 

1 Corinthians 13:7-12 describes well how we as mortals lack knowledge and perspective, and it promises us that as we come to know God, we will someday understand all things.  

1 Corinthians 13:7-12

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things….

9 For we know in part, …

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.