SOMETIMES THE MOMENT HAS PASSED

Sometimes the moment has passed. It is then wise to consider the circumstances, timing and investment. With this information we go on to the next thing. Let the other thing go. It is sometimes with great confusion and disappointment. It is difficult to keep what is gone. We have to let it go.

God has caused us to live with mysteries. There is just a bunch of stuff we don’t know. Like the mystery of marriage, childbirth, being born from above, of blood, developing faith, building a home of oneness, what happens after death and many such mysteries. We must live (especially leaders and parents) with a theology that can accommodate unanswered questions. Why some are not healed, or not saved, why some people die, why certain things happen to good people, why the innocent suffer, why children get sick, etc. Sometimes these things cannot be answered. But when the moment has passed (if it has passed) we are called to live in faith with unanswered questions.

I don’t mean anything as obscure as…’Let go and let God’ or some such New Age handy-dandy saying. That can mean we intend to do nothing, research nothing and not try to figure things out. We may need to dig a little deeper. Our responsibility is to let the moment pass so we can begin to rebuild with experience, try another plan, buy better tools, seek better counsel and avoid mental, emotional and physical debt as much as possible. The Lord honors honest effort.

“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?” Jesus