The God of My Is…
The prophet Daniel.
Living in exile.
Away from everything familiar.
Stripped of all he knew.
Given a new name…
And, a life he didn’t choose.
Still figuring out the day to day.
Simply existing.
Holding on to one truth:
“But there is a God in Heaven (Daniel 2:28).”
Sit with that a minute.
There is.
He’s present.
In every heart break.
In every frustration.
In every care.
In every hurt.
In the death of every dream.
There is a God in Heaven.
Now ponder this:
You are God of my “is”…
Even in this.
Say those two lines several times.
Let it reframe the troubled thoughts of your mind.
Let them settle your heart.
There is a God in Heaven.
Even in your Babylon.
Whatever it looks like.
Wherever it has taken you.
Whatever life you didn’t choose.
Now finish the thought:
You are God of my is…
Even in this.
My hope and my stay.
My wisdom when I cannot see.
My strength when I am weak.
My light in the dark.
The nail-pierced hand that holds me when I do not understand.
You are God of my is.
Even in this.
As Jesus told Peter, as He washed the filthy feet of a resistant fisherman:
“What I am doing, you don’t understand now; but, afterward you will understand (John 13:7)”
Maybe faith is simply trusting the God of my is until the day my now becomes my afterward.
SO…There is a God in Heaven.
Even in this.
And, that’s just a thought…
