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So I caught news that the Disney store in the Cool Springs mall was closing its doors.
Now, if you don't know Cool Springs, it is a very prominent area of Tennessee, a very financially stable area of the nation, so it seems. When the cookie starts to crumble in the areas of Brentwood and Cool Springs, you know there is a problem.
Which leads me to ask...where is our security? I'd like to think that my security is heaven based. I try very hard to remind myself that although I live on earth, it is not my home. However, it's something I think I need to be reminded of, often. When Jeff and I look at finances and what is or is not there, we can tend to go into "control" or "panic" mode. Or I do, anyway. How can we make this work? Is there any way I can go back to work? We truly think Carrie needs one more year of preschool...and then perhaps in a year and a half I can go back to work...what does that look like for the Johnson family? And I'm a teacher, so it's not like going back to work will bring in loads of money...
We have to keep coming back to the fact that we are grounded in Christ. He died for us. He has already won the battle and nothing can take that eternal security away from us.
And no matter what happens, He knows the beginning, the spot that is NOW, and the end. He knows the path He has CHOSEN for us. And nothing surprises Him. He has prepared us for exactly where we are right now...and that has EVERYTHING to do with where we will be in the future.
What if Jeff loses his job and we need to move? What if we have to sell the house and move in with family? What if, what if, WHAT IF?
If I asked my parents in the year 1991 why we were moving to Nashville, they would tell you "because it's God's plan." They had NO idea that perhaps moving to Nashville meant that Mindy would find her path in teaching music and find her "promised, set aside just for her - perfect match" husband in her first year of teaching. I'm positive that our move to Nashville had so so so much more than just that spoke of the wheel, spindle of the web- there were so many reasons connecting us to the move to Franklin, TN. But reminding ourselves of that can help keep us grounded in faith--
that everything works to glorify Him, according to HIS purpose.
not our purpose, it's so not about us. It's about HIM.
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