FROM THE END OF THE EARTH

I’ll never forget the disappointment etched in the face of coach DuBose after Tennessee had beaten Alabama.

Again.

At the news conference, he followed the normal script, “We turned the ball over, left points on the field, had way too many penalties.” What the cameras never caught was what was really being said in his heart, “Lord I prayed, I took you at your word—what went wrong?”

Mike DuBose had become a man of faith.

What he was learning was God works all things together for our good, but doesn’t overly concern himself with the temporal. He majors in the eternal. So what do you think about God’s delays? A ballgame is one thing, but what about healing for the body or food on the table or sanity of mind?

Psalms 61:2 provides an answer, “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” We do not become “overwhelmed” when everything is going our way; we tend to nut up when seemingly everything goes away. When you have come to the end of your world, of what to do and how to do it, God is always there waiting to lead you to the Rock Jesus, whose ways are always higher than yours. He is in control, has been and always will be, and if the scoreboard reads 36-0, he has something higher to teach you.

God knows that since man fell hard in the garden, that he has been obsessed with the terminal and oblivious to the transcendent. The moment Adam realized he was naked, this world became imaginary experts on what was needed most and have steadily degenerated ever since. After all, image is everything—if your not wearing “Fig of the Loon” underwear then you ain’t nothing.

Have you become disappointed in your “fig leaf” apron? God has something far greater in mind. He is building trust, and eternity will reveal that he did everything well in your life. Every move was calculated, every cry heard and attended, every hair counted and accounted for. He is your Heavenly Father and knows and meets your every need: “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah” (Psalms 62:8).

God will move in your situation, in His time. For the immediate, he is imparting to you a heart that trusts him.

When it's 36-0.

This is God's super natural work!