Good morning,
. . but someday you will.
When my sister and her husband came for a visit last week they brought a document with them about the history of my mother’s family that began back in 1856 in a Russian occupied part of what is now Poland. This piece of our family history begins with a couple who were German farmers, God fearing Baptists, and the parents of 12 children, nine who lived to become adults. This 13 page document winds through the years from that beginning point through two World Wars until it was written in 1977. It was fascinating to see how the lives of these two people developed into a spreading family tree full of joy, sorrow, pain and determination on the part of those who came after them. Both my parents and my two sisters and I were even mentioned as part of that story. I am quite sure that that original couple had no idea that someday they would have relatives scattered all over the world that would come from their humble farming family.
That same principal was true when Jesus came to Peter to wash his feet the night before he would do the most important act of obedience in all of the history of our world. Peter objected to Jesus doing a servant’s job, and was not about to let his teacher wash his feet. I am sure that Jesus looked Peter right in the eye when he said, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.” All Peter was thinking about was life from his point of view. What Jesus was thinking about was all of eternity. I think in many ways we all find ourselves in the same place as Peter. Today we have God’s love letter to us, the Bible. Today we have thousands of years of history in the Bible as well as from the thousands of years following it’s writing, to today. Through all those years we have a clear example of a carefully planned history of what God has done and what he will do in the frame we call time and eternity. We don’t have all the details, but there is the unmistakable hand of a Sovereign God who loves his creation in time and has a place for all those who will love and trust him throughout eternity. Right now we live in uncertain times with lots of personal uncertainty, but God has a perfect plan that includes all of us who are required to make a choice to trust and obey or perish in unbelief. Dear Lord, please help us to hold on to you in the face of times like these so that some day we will understand when we see your smiling face.
John 13:7 Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”
Roy Wisner
