Your Timeline Is Safe with God
About this episode
The episode discusses the illusion of control over our timelines and emphasizes that all our times are in God's hands.
Most of us move through our days believing, at least functionally, that we are in control of our own time. We make the decisions, direct the steps, keep ourselves safe. And then something happens that reminds us how thin that sense of control actually is, and we are left wondering how much of it was ever really ours to hold. If we could catch even a glimpse into the spiritual reality around us, we would see something that would reshape how we understand every season of our lives. God and His angels going before us. Preparing the way. Pulling us back from dangers we never even knew were there. Our times are not our own, not in the moments that feel controlled and not in the moments that feel completely out of hand. Psalm 31:15 holds one of the most quietly settling truths in all of Scripture. My times are in Your hands. Not some of my times. Not the favorable ones or the ones I have managed well. All of them. The certain and the uncertain. The seasons of blessing and the seasons of loss. God's hand was on Job in the wonderful and in the tragic, and He is no less attentive to us. The hardest version of this truth to receive is the one for the person who feels behind. Who looks at…
Topics covered
- control
- faith
- God's plan
- spiritual reality
- timing
- trust
Keywords
- control
- God
- timing
- faith
- spirituality
- Psalm 31:15
- Job
- trust
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Psalm 31:15
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