What If...?
*I have been learning a lot about living the life God created me to live fully. This has been a process that requires me to question everything I think and believe so that I can align my thinking and beliefs with the truth of God and His Word. As a result, self-revealing questions seem to slip in everywhere, even in my prayers. These are some questions that have been coming to me in prayer lately. Please note that they are not directed at anyone specifically, not even specifically at me. They are gentle prayerful whispers of The Father I have heard Him ask during our conversations in the early morning hours. Again, they are not specific to any one person, but rather general questions from a loving Heavenly Father for His children to consider. It is good to question ourselves and to examine our perspectives. It helps us to remain alert and watchful that no falsehood gets in our thinking and lives. With that being said:
What if...
What if you didn't miss out on anything during childhood? What if those activities and people you desired to experience and know weren't as fun and amazing as they seemed? What if the people weren't having fun at all, it just looked like it to you? What if instead of being deprived you were being protected from harm? What if your family's "weirdness" wasn't weird? What if God's children are supposed to appear "weird" to those who don't understand and to ungodly people? What if being "weird" is a good thing?
What if the difference between your family and others was a positive not the negative you thought it was? What if you weren't being rejected by men but were instead being protected by God? What if your parents did understand? What if they weren't wrong? What if they were wise, discerning adults who fully understood and loved you deeply enough to say no?
What if you already have everything your heart desires and you've spent all of these years trying to get something you wouldn't want if you were able to see it for what it really is? What if there is more to life than doing and having everything you want? What if you want God and His ways more than you realize? What if He really is ALL your heart desires?
What if you already have everything your heart desires and just don't recognize it because it doesn't look like you think it will? What if you already have abundant riches? What if money and stuff are only tools? What if God sees, knows, understands, and is patiently, lovingly watching you grow and mature because He knows what you don't yet know? What if He knows, but His love is greater? What if you don't need to fear because He is always near?
What if, when all is said and done, you witness all of those "weird, odd, don't understand" people of God hear Him say, "Well done my good and faithful servant...enter the reward prepared for you" while those who seemed to be having so much fun, the ones you openly admired while secretly despising your Godly family and friends, hear Him say, "Depart from me" and are banished into utter darkness separated from God for eternity? What if, the day of the harvest of the Godly "weirdos" and the ungodly is sooner than one knows? What if, no matter what, GOD IS and that is enough, always?
Take courage, dear ones, GOD IS, and HE is enough.