Faith is finding certainty in the mystery

​Our human desire is certainty. We want to live in absolute predictability.

God's desire is mystery. He wants us to turn lovingly and longingly to him in all of our unpredictability.

Some days that creates quite the conflict in our stories. It creates tension when I become obsessed with 'when' while God is obsessed with 'how'.

It creates struggle when I'm fixated on the final chapter - happily ever after - while God seemingly isn't giving so much as a glance to those final pages.

Maybe God is too obsessed with the page I'm on to look that far ahead.

Maybe God is obsessed with me discovering I'll never be happy with 'the end' if I can't find joy in the words He and I will write together today.

Maybe God wants me to believe that today is the most meaningful day I've had in my life. He wants me to believe it without having to skip ahead to the final pages of my life to see proof of it.

Faith is living today like I already have the proof.

Faith is finding certainty in the mystery.

Some days that makes this mystery story we're living a challenging story to live in. But what a beautiful story it is.