Sabbath Sunday: Unexpected Snow in Spring
It’s Sabbath Sunday! This is a day where I take my own amateur nature picture and share it with a word or two about God’s love for you.
I took this picture the last week of March where the calendar had in bold it was Spring. I’m a literal person and both my kids have this trait. So when we read it is Spring, well, it should look like Spring. This picture isn’t looking Spring.
I get so frustrated when this happens. Marriage should be happy. Kids should be healthy. Jobs should last. Parents should live a long, long time. Homes should be perfect. Finances should be easy.
That’s how my mind works.
But that isn’t how God works. Thing is, when things don’t go our way we blame God and think He has some cosmic curse on us. It isn’t so. Just like snow on a Spring day, He has purpose for every single thing that happens right down to the numbers of hair on your head. Every. Single. Thing. There are times He’ll show you what He’s up to, and times He won’t. Our job is to trust Him either way. After all, He purposes things for our good and to advance His Kingdom. So what looks like the end of the world could actually be the start of something amazing.
But often we miss that because we’re lamenting over the snow in Spring.
So whatever curveball comes your way, will you trust God with it? I’m right with you, it isn’t easy for me. I’ve already confessed how literal we are. But I know enough about God to know He cares more for me than the birds in the air so if it has to snow in Spring, I’m going to try to embrace what feels like a curveball to me.
Because deep down I know that thing I wasn’t expecting God was expecting all along.
