Could this be the start of something new?

“I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11 (The Message)

Could this really be the start of something new?

Who could really believe what is happening, especially when we take a chance that we never believed in … never understood why we are opening our hearts to an uncertain future … uncertain at least from our limited perspective of our future. It is true that we have never felt this way before, but now it is possible to begin to accept the reality that anything can really happen.

Could this really be the start of something new?

It makes us feel that we are in harmony with God and in the middle of the divine universe. Can we really start to trust what our heart seems to be saying to us? Can we really begin to believe in the impossible? Can the world really look this much different than it did just yesterday?

Something has changed, but what? How? Why? Is it just me? Is it something deep inside? Could our eyesight … spiritual, heart, soul sight … make this much difference?

Could this really be the start of something new? Or is it just our imagination? Is it true that with God all things are possible? Does God hold out a fantastic future for us? Does God have plans that cannot be measured by human standards? Will God really take care of me?

Well, we will see won’t we.

Just have to start to trust God, placing all of our hopes and possibilities into his care. As the popular and much over used phrase states: Let go and let God. But is it really as easy as that seems to state. Letting go is very hard.

Remember the old story of the mountain climber who fell over the cliff and was able to grab hold of a small tree at the last minute. He began to cry out for help when a voice comes out of nowhere asking if there is something he could do to help. “Yes,” responded the climber in peril, “please send down a rope and rescue me.” “Well,” the voice said, “I’m God, just let go and I will catch you.” After a long pause the climber cried out, “Is there anyone else up there?”

Letting go is hard … but that is the start of something new … a love affair between us and God … a future we can believe it … a trust that is unbelievable, especially in the crude reality presented to us by the world in which we live … letting go is hard, but my word, what God holds for us who are willing to abandon all hope, let go and trust God to catch us!