WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE THE BEGINNING NOR THE END

How would you feel when you can’t see the beginning nor the end?

2 weeks ago, I wanted to make plant hangers using my extra silver cord. The first one was easy since the cord was still neatly packed, and it was easy to find the ends of the cord.

When I was about to make the second one, the rest of the cord was now entangled, and it was difficult to find either end for me to start measuring. I got frustrated and left the cord on the bed all tangled up.

While staring at it blankly, I saw one end without any effort. It gave me a leap of hope and decided to continue making the second plant hanger.

At the end of December 2021, I felt exactly like that after the super typhoon struck our city and the Covid-19 cases were once again madly increasing. This time, it was not the cord that was entangled but the laid-out plans for December and the coming new year.

As I sat down, thinking blankly, asking God on what is happening and what is going to happen, God impressed upon my heart the scriptures from Ecclesiastes chapter 3:1-13.

1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil?

10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

It is indeed frustrating, confusing, and scary when you can’t see the beginning nor the ending of the path that you are walking that many times we just want to stop, sit and stare at nothing. It is at this lowest moment though that God will meet us and allow us to put our highest trust in His presence even when the path is dark.

What could we do when we can’t see the beginning nor the end?

Walk with God one day at a time because he holds the beginning and the end.

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

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Ecclesiastes 3:11-12

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.