Something amazing is coming

​Well, I read the words below and I was convicted. Not because I'm a big Netflix binge watcher. But I do have my moments. Enough to know it's true. If I started watching a show - and the first couple of episodes were awful - but all of my friends were screaming, 'stick with it, this gets amazing' - I know I'd stick with it.

Yet, when it comes to other areas of my life - maybe a new nutrition plan - or my writing - or just the wobbly direction of my life in general. If this moment is awful, I'm easily tempted to give up on this moment and start looking for the next show.

But I've done this life thing long enough to know now that the best part of our story is often the part we haven't lived yet. It's the part we don't see coming. It's the part that catches us completely by surprise.

With Netflix, we have friends who have already seen the show - they know the part of the story we haven't yet seen - so they can give us reassurance. This thing is going to work out just fine. I know it.

But often, when it comes to our lives, we find ourselves in scenes that are slow - maybe even painful. We feel like no one has seen this story, so who can possibly reassure us?

No one can, really. Life isn't responding to a script. It's responding to us.

That's why encouragement is more powerful than reassurance. Encouragement says, I don't know how this story goes, but I believe you're going to make a show worth watching out of it.

A common refrain I offer myself these days is, something amazing is coming.

And I believe it.

I believe it because I am encouraged by my own life that has been through this cycle many times: struggle to amazing.

I believe it because I am encouraged by friends who remind me, you have a gift for turning struggle into amazing.

And I believe it because my faith has never abandoned me when the story started slow. My faith is always telling me, hold on - water to wine is coming. Blind to seeing is coming. Struggle to amazing is on its way.

So I feel a need to tell you today. Keep watching this show called your life. It's spectaculor!! I don't know how your show ends, but something amazing is coming. I believe that. And I want to encourage you to believe it.

Water to wine. Blind to seeing. Struggle to amazing.

Get up today and live this episode like you believe the best part of the story is yet to come. And I belief life will respond accordingly.

Your life is absolutely worth binging.