But I know what to do today...

It can feel like it's closing in on you.....the pressure, the uncertainty. I think deep inside, we all have a desire to know what's going to happen. That could be why people squander more money than we could imagine on psychics and fortune tellers. Even if everything they say turns out to be wrong, at least for awhile people can feel like they know what's coming.

On the other end of the spectrum, think of those life experiences we navigated through successfully that we KNOW would have scared the ba-jeebers out of us if we had known they were coming. We all have them. The curve balls life throws at us that prove we have more strength, more endurance, a deeper faith than we ever imagined. But Thank God we didn't know ahead of time it was coming, or we would never have accepted the challenge. Those are the times when I thank God for all that he revealed to me through the trials, but then quickly let him know it doesn't mean I EVER want to go through anything like that again!

I heard something in a sermon on Sunday that got me to thinking. We've been talking about the book of Acts and the uncertainty the apostles must have felt as they waited to see what this "Holy Spirit" or "Helper" turned out to be. The uncertainty of what was going to happen next after Jesus left them so abruptly. The uncertainty they must have felt as they stood there looking into the clouds after He ascended, thinking, "But wait....."

They didn't know what to expect. They didn't know what was coming. They didn't know what the future of the church was going to look like... or maybe that there even was going to be a "church". But they did what they knew to do, and they left the rest to God.

The church in Acts was in transition. Leo and I can relate. Our church is in transition. Our family is in transition. And our company is in transition. We don't know what to expect. We have no idea what the future holds in any of these areas or how it will play out in our lives.

But we know what to do today.
And today we will do it.

The rest, we leave to God.