No Title, Just Results

It’s Saturday. October 15. 2022. I reached a remarkable milestone with this post—100 continuous days of writing and producing a blog post. I could blow trumpets, send self-congratulating messages, or ask for an offering, but that’s not me, and that’s not what’s important.

Several times I’ve attempted to reach this goal, but Life stepped in and pulled the rug out from underneath my good intentions.

Do you know Life?

That’s what happens around you, even to you, that you had not planned to be an event to pay any attention to. Life.

I say, “Let’s kick life in the teeth!”

Since I’m a spiritual person, most of my writing has been geared toward the Bible and the “Contents of Life Happening” to many people, times, and places.

If I’ve learned anything through my years,
it’s often about how we react to Life
versus how we succumb to the circumstances of the moment.

Life’s A Choice

There are choices we make every day to deal with the moment. Call them micro choices. Small events culminate in the final results of a day well spent or one that’s upended and tossed as rubbish in the ravine.

Equally, there is a multitude of choices that represent a typical day. In one way, I describe them as autopilot. Even mundane. Routine. Face whatever the day holds, and deal with the goal for the day. Results? A micro-choice can “tump over” (Yes, “tump” is a word.”

Now we deal with the Big Ticket items. Sometimes they are planned for, but often they are a surprise. They are the hurdles of tragedy, personal disappointments, losses, and failures. Equally, they are the victories, celebrations, planned events, and other surprises.

Consider God’s Plan

God’s plan should always be our focus. If we are walking the walk, and talking the talk, then what comes our way is something we shouldn’t be overwhelmed or surprised by. But we are each uniquely challenged to overcome or succumb to events.

How we should realize that “Pobody’s Nerfect” every day, all the time, and none are exempt.

From one of the oldest books in the bible, we learn how Job dealt with life-numbing tragedy. He survived. Albeit differently than maybe he thought Life would be, he did survive.

My mind pops over to Joseph and realizes that he, too, dealt with tragedy but kept a proper focus forward. He could have repeatedly played the victim role but focused on purpose through every tragic moment. Victory! (Genesis 50:20)

Probably every Biblical person I could rattle from the top of my head had struggles. We often see them in their worst moment or greatest victory. But every day, there were plenty of micro choices, autopilots, and Big Ticket events.

All of us are wrapped up in God’s Plan.

Here’s My Thought Today

Job knew God. Don’t we? He realized Life did not always reveal God or his plans, but his faith was not shaken.

“Look, I go forward, but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him;
When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.

But He knows the way that I take;
When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.
(Job 23:8-12 NKJV)

From his ashes and sores, tragedy and loss, Job could have become what he may never dream he could be. A victim. Thrown by the wayside of Life. God did not stop it. I’m in this by myself. I may as well do what I want because no one else cares.

Pity Party Sounds! We are good at them. Where’s the garden? Ah, there are those worms!

Or, we could be like Job.

In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
(Job 1:22 NKJV)

I make micro choices all day long to live better than I have any right to be, flow on autopilot to make it through Life, and do my best to handle all the big ticket items in a way that shows God I can do this!