Meandering Monday - Better Things Ahead - Martin Wiles

Welcome to Meandering Monday, where we take a trip back to an earlier post and enjoy it again.

For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us. Hebrews 11:40 NLT

A good friend kept telling me, “There are better things ahead,” but I couldn’t see them.

Losing a job and a career when you’re over fifty is tough. Few employers want employees over fifty unless they are of retirement age or are just looking for a few part-time hours to supplement their Social Security. I didn’t need a supplement. I needed a full-time job that would pay the bills. Rejection after rejection came. Overqualified. Under qualified. Although they wouldn’t say it, prospective employers didn’t want to spend their time training me when I’d be retiring in a few years or perhaps moving back into my preferred profession. I kept the faith, and eventually, things got better. I found a job doing what I loved. God knew all along things were going to improve; I simply had to trust he did.

The catalog list of what has happened to believers throughout history is extensive: sawn in two, fed to the lions, beheaded, imprisoned, beaten, ridiculed, burned at the stake, stoned, slain with swords. But they endured then and keep enduring now because they believe something better is ahead.

When the walls of life crumble, faith is required. Perhaps we’ll never find ourselves subjected to some of the early methods of persecuting Christians, but the challenges remain. Trials will come. How we view them will determine our response and possibly the outcome. Faith in God will help us keep our focus that he’s in control of the trial, its length, and its purpose. God’s gift of faith and strength gives us an inner fortitude we can’t find anywhere else but that only comes one day at a time. We can’t see the better thing that’s ahead, but we can be confident it’s there. God’s agenda is different. He makes his own hours and formulates his own calendars without asking for our help.

The tunnels of life can be dark, but there’s always an opening at the end with a brighter light than existed at the entrance. Are you trusting God’s promises of better things ahead?

Prayer: Father, give us faith to trust Your agenda even when we can’t see it. 

Tweetable: Are you looking ahead to better things? 

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