Certainty

When you have been stuck indoors for three solid days, feeling sick as a dog (though I don't really understand that expression...dogs aren't sick, not usually....), and suffering from nausea and chills, it is easy to forget there is a world outside.

When I began to feel even worse yesterday, with non stop coughing and my chest started hurting, I decided it was time to go to the doctor. I feared pneumonia with how awful I felt. In fact, I KNEW it was pneumonia. I just needed to go to the doctor for him to call in the meds. I probably could have figured out what meds I needed as well, but I would let him earn his money.

I was bundled in warm-up sweats and fleece jacket, and my fleece lined clogs. I stepped outside and couldn't believe it. It was sunny, and warm, probably 75 degrees. A gorgeous day! How had that been going on while I was so miserable, shaking with chills inside the house?

It is easy to lose perspective, see things too narrowly based on your own perceptions. As I read the comments in the news and on Facebook, I am floored by how completely disparate the views are about the Government shutdown. I am as floored by the views that differ from mine as I was walking out onto a beautiful day when my inside world was so miserable. How could so many people be so misunderstanding of the others' position?

Jesus has a tough job. We are stubborn, prideful, and utterly convinced we are right most of the time. The last thing we tend to do willingly is admit we are wrong, submit, or ask forgiveness. Yet the absolute first thing we must do to enter God's presence is admit we don't deserve to be there, we cannot get there on our own power, and we must rely upon His mercy and grace. We have to suspend  our belief that we are worthy and that we know what is best. It does not come easily to most, if any of us. Certainly not to me.

"I have pneumonia," I told the doctor. He smiled, but still went through his diagnostic routine. Now he will see, I thought, as he listened to my lungs.
"You have a sinus infection," he said.
He prescribed meds I'd never heard of and sent me on my way, a little less certainty lighting my path.

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Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment. (1 Timothy 6:17 GNT)





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