His Cross Our HopeSampel

I’m a fixer. It’s what I do. If you have a problem, I’m going to tell you how to solve it, and if you don’t, chances are I will. At least that’s how I used to be. As time has gone by, I’ve learned that not everything can be fixed, and sometimes it doesn’t need to be. Sometimes, what appears to be broken to me is just what God is using to make someone (or me) whole.

There are times when we think we know what the plan is and how it’s supposed to look, and sometimes we do, but there are many more times when what God is doing looks nothing like I thought it should. Just like this moment in the garden of Gethsemane. I imagine soldiers arresting Jesus didn’t seem like part of the plan. It’s evidenced by Peter’s reaction that the disciples saw the Messiah’s role quite differently than God had planned. But Jesus was in on it. Jesus didn’t need anything to be fixed because He was going to fix everything. Peter saw Jesus as the Messiah, coming to defeat the Romans and redeem Israel. God saw Jesus as the Messiah, coming to crush death and redeem everyone.

Too many times, like Peter, I’ve tried to fix things to meet my agenda, or what I thought was best; unfortunately, my perspective is too small. Luckily God’s is not. And while I can’t know for certain the details of God’s plan, I can follow Jesus’s obedience in trusting He knows best. Although Jesus could ask God for anything, He chose to submit to His Father’s will and purpose.

It’s easy to want to fix things when they don’t seem to be going the way we want. When a situation like that arises, how can you remind yourself that God’s working things in your favor, even when you can’t see it?

~Kimi Miller

Blogger, speaker, and co-host of the Faith Over Fear podcast