More To The Story

Madelyn is a little thinker and talker.  She became concerned about a deer who had wandered into our yard and ate the grass.  She used the term, "ew--gross."  When she decided the deer had become a problem, I could not convince her otherwise, especially during her nap.  So.  I took her back into the yard so she could see it had been  barricaded to  prevent the deer from coming in.  But.  The deer was there . . . eating the grass . . . uninhibited by our presence. Really?  Madelyn could see we had a "big problem."

It's a lesson which will be repeated in her life many times: We will face problems.

When a problem does not seem to have a solution,  when there's more impossible than possible, when worry becomes a familiar companion, when our story becomes problem-centered, we need to stop and shift our attention to God.  There's more to the story,  regardless of how bad, difficult, and down-right impossible it all seems, there's a way through it with God.

Consider.
For I am about to do something new.
      See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
   I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
      I will create rivers in the dry wasteland (Isaiah 43: 19, NLT)

It's worth remembering and repeating the truth, God makes all things new, even when we're in the wilderness and wasteland of life.  Problems are a part of our story, not the whole story.  There's another side to it all.  It's how the story is told. When Christ went to the cross, it seemed his story would end in death; however, the story is not about the cross, it's about Christ overcoming death.  Through Christ, we are more than conquerors, strengthened to do all things, released from the ending of death, freed to experience the fullness of life.

Refuse to think the story of your life ends with problems, regardless of how big the problem appears. Take another look at the story.  God is about to do something new.  Do you not see it?

Learning to Kickstart the day remembering there's more to the story,
Kerrie

(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)