It’s day 27 of the series 31 Days of Lessons Learned from My 20’s. If you want to read all the posts in this series, you can find every post listed here. If you want to have all the posts delivered to your email inbox, subscribe here.
Over the past month I’ve written a lot about time. And I’ve taken many looks back on my own time. For each of us our time is brief. The depth of this truth becomes greater the older you get. And don’t even get me started about what watching your newborn turn into a one-year-old is like. Next week our baby girl will be one. It’s been the fastest year of my life. And the year I wish I could freeze over and over again.
There’s so much unknown about what’s to come. None of us knows. But today, let’s take to heart the words in Psalm 39. Let’s allow the busy rushing to stop. The wishing for the next season to stop. The pining over what we want to be – wish to be – to stop. The fear to stop.
Instead, let’s rest in hope. Hope for what’s to come. Sure, there’s hope in the next years in this life. But let’s also hope in what’s to come in eternity. That’s where our peace lies.
I can’t say that I’ve fully learned this truth now. But I sure wish I had begun to learn it in my 20’s.
Do you feel you’re living in a place where your hope is in the Lord?
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