My personality temperament leans towards melancholy. (Some might say I’m planted right in the middle of melancholy! 🙂 ) That means I have artistic gifts. It also means I am introspective to a fault and find it easier to see the shadows than the light.
I was driving home one recent night and feeling overwhelmed about my future. To the extent that I was dreading getting up the next morning, convinced I would only face more anxiety, worry, and fear.
I spoke aloud, “I don’t have anything to look forward to.”
Yes, I know that was the ultimate whining statement of ingratitude, faithlessness, lack of trust, and selfishness. And God would have been within his rights to have slapped me upside my head.
Instead, he challenged me to edit my thought.
“I don’t know WHAT I have to look forward to.”
I do not know what my future blessings will be.
- I don’t know what friendships I’ll be blessed to enjoy.
- I don’t know what work and ministry opportunities I will have.
- I don’t know how God will provide for me and for those around me.
- I don’t know how God will continue to bring me into greater wholeness and freedom.
But as I look at what God has already done in all of these areas, I know that I CAN look forward to him continuing his work.
I have a LOT to look forward to; I just don’t know the details. Yet.
Meanwhile, this is the time to anticipate!
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