February 18: How Comfortable Are You With Uncertainty?

Affirmation: I nourish my body, mind and soul. 

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Ponder: Continue to memorize and ponder this verse.

Zephaniah 3:17 

“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” 

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Tommy Walker. Never Gonna Stop

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Catching Whimsy: 365 Days of Possibility by Bob Goff 

                       Feb 18

How Comfortable Are You With Uncertainty?

 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would like to receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8.

Some people have stranded relationship with ambiguity. They want all their ducks lined up, alphabetized, and labeled. They don’t like hearing something is “just around the corner,” because it means they can’t see it right now and this rattles them. But the truth is, most of us can’t forecast the future with absolute accuracy, so we’re going to need to get a little more comfortable with uncertainty than perhaps we have been.

I was talking to a few friends of mine who loves certainty and spend quite a bit of time, organizing their lives, and everyone else’s around them. They were describing how wonderful they thought it would be to go into a room they saw advertised where there was no sound, no light, and that holds a salty zero gravity pool where they can float and experience complete sensory deprivation. They grinned and rubbed their hands together, imagining with delight this experience of absolute certainty about what would and would not be happening around them.

If they could’ve read what was in the thought bubble over my head, they would’ve seen that this sensory – deprivation room described Dante‘s nine circles of hell to me. No interactions? Zero gravity, floating around in an abyss? Total silence and absolute certainty? No thanks. I would rather be left in a darkened room they call the “ambiguity room” and have someone whisper to me, “there might be someone in the room with you” before they locked me in. Just imagining the countless possibilities would light me up. what is your relationship with ambiguity? You might be like me and love ambiguity. My wife, Sweet Maria on the other hand, would say she and ambiguity are seeing other people. Whether you love it or hate it, we have to learn to live with a lot of uncertainty in our lives. We don’t get to find out in advance how things will look or work out. In fact, the only thing that is certain is that we will be at the feet of Jesus someday and have both a delightful and difficult conversation with Him about our complicated and unpredictable lives.
if God wanted to make everything in the future plain and fully transparent to us now, He certainly could, but He usually doesn’t. So today, as we encounter ambiguity, let’s learn to delight in the possibilities. Uncertainty provides room for us to grow and learn.

Uncertainty leaves room for hope and whimsy.