TCATS #264 - The Source

Whenever there's something that comes up in life that takes me away from attending Choir, I'm usually quick to point out how much I really missed being with my fellow Choir singers. However, I won't say that today because of how much I enjoyed being with my family today at our Church's worship service. My son Joshua, who'll be leaving our family soon to serve a two-year mission in Albania, spoke to the congregation today and did a marvelous job bearing testimony of Jesus Christ. My wife and I sat there, enveloped in the Spirit, tearing up at how much our little boy had grown up and how he had developed such a firm and unyielding testimony of his own. 

I wouldn't have missed those few minutes for anything. 

One of the songs the choir sang today (and which I rehearsed with them on Thursday) was "Thou Lovely Source of True Delight" (link from today's broadcast here, while it lasts).  There are two sentences that fit in with a lesson my wife gave me and our kids at home this evening:
  

Jesus, my Lord, my life, my light
Oh come with blissful ray.
Break radiant through the shades of night
And chase my fears away.

On top of Josh leaving soon--joining his sister in preaching the Gospel--there's a lot of uncertainty in the Pitt home right now with a variety of things. What's going to happen with this? What about that? How do we think the Lord will direct out path with this? What am I supposed to think about that? What if we have to go to Plan B with this? Will we have enough faith if this happens but not that? A thought from today's spoken word sums it up by saying, "Fear and uncertainty crash and swirl all around us, and we feel that all we can do is hold on for dear life—if we could only find something to hold onto."

It's the light of Christ that can break through the fear, the uncertainty, and all of the vexing questions that plague us from day to day. It can literally chase our fears away. So for my wife and I, we're choosing to have faith that the light we seek will, indeed, come and illuminate the path--if only for a minute or two--so we can take those next few steps forward. And if we stumble over rocks or have to take unplanned detours, or realize that instead of going left, we have to go right, then we'll just go right and know that God's perfect plan is just that--perfect. 

After all...why would we want any other plan?

Until next time, God be with you.