So I spend a lot of time at home these days, and I'm always getting something done ... straightening the house, cooking, paying bills ... but whatever I'm working on is almost always accompanied by watching TV. Actually, not even watching TV half the time, just listening to TV. I always have the TV on because I have a hard time with silence. I am aware it is a spiritual discipline I need to work on, for God often speaks through the silence. But today, He spoke through the noise...
There are many things on TV today that are unwholesome and inappropriate ... Grey's Anatomy is full of unwholesomeness and inappropriateness, therefore I am embarrassed to admit that I catch an episode occasionally if there happens to be one on. And this afternoon, my God knew that I would come home, turn on the TV, and find a rerun of this inappropriate show. He knew that when I did, I would hear this:
Don't wonder why people go crazy; wonder why they don't. In the face of all we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the heck it is that makes us hold it together.
And immediately, from all the way across the house, listening to the TV to avoid silence, I became excited! I became excited because I know the answer!!! I know! I know what the heck it is that makes us hold it together... I know why we don't go crazy... I know!! And in the most unexpected places, my God, my Savior, spoke through the noise. He spoke through the noise to remind me of who He is ... to remind me of His love ... to remind me of His power.
Colossians 1:16-17 says this:
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and IN HIM ALL THINGS HOLD TOGETHER.
The Message phrases it this way:
For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels - everything go started in him and FINDS ITS PURPOSE IN HIM. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment.
Did you catch that? In HIM!! In Him all things hold together ... In Him we find our purpose! In Him our hurts are healed, in Him our sins are forgiven and in Him we are made clean! I've heard Him referred to in this passage as "spiritual super-glue." Regardless of what we are going through, He is there and He holds us together. He is the glue! We don't have to wonder ... WE KNOW!! ... we have Truth...
So why is it that we live as though we don't know this truth? Do we know the God we claim to serve? Do we find hope in our situations that seem hopeless? Often times I don't ... and in the most unexpected places the God of creation shows up to remind me He's there... He's the hope ... He's the glue...
