It Is Best

This blessing of life, so you don’t know what to do with it. You don’t know how to take it and accept it and receive it, as yours. You don’t know when it will finally feel real and actually flourish as intended, in you. You don’t know how God is going to use it, in you and for you. So you don’t know. You don’t know exactly how or when or what. To do. That’s okay. You do not know. It is best not to know. It is best.

Because the moment we grasp for understanding, the moment we grasp to take hold of and to claim each blessing as our own, is the moment we no longer receive, but take. It’s the moment we no longer ask, but insist. It’s the moment we turn from child-like faith, to faith in our own-doing. And the striving begins.

Yes, only in the not-knowing will you remain as a child. The not-knowing of simply receiving.

Where you can receive and not wonder, “Did I do this?”, as though you could have earned it.

Where you can receive and not question, “Will I reduce this?”, as though how you act and what you do with each blessing somehow secures it.

Where you can receive, simply receive. It is best.

Because Jesus did this for you. He took the punishment for your sin against God. He died for you. Instead of your death, God accepted the death of His only Son, for you. So that you could receive life. Simply receive.

Where God declares you righteous not filthy, innocent not guilty, holy not sinful, blameless not condemned.

Because you received His blessing, His gift, His life, for you. Without knowing what to do with it, without knowing how it will all work. Just knowing Him, that you need Him. And it is best.

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“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God” - Ephesians 2:4-8