“…And let us run with determination the race that lies before us. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end….”
HEB 12 VS 2
Do you know why God sometimes, well, most times does not reveal to us every single detail of our journey before we begin?. Yes, there is the part where He wants us to trust Him enough to walk the journey with Him guiding us.
There is also another reason.
He knows that many of us won’t be able to handle it. Would you die for the world the way Jesus did if you knew that you would have to be nailed to a cross?
When we carefully think about the experience of Mary, the mother of our Lord Jesus, we would see that indeed the path to fulfilling the purposes of God for our lives won’t always be free of pain and discomfort. Imagine being a young woman in her day, a period in time where purity was held in the utmost regard and finding out that she was with child.
An unmarried woman was with child!. It must have brought such disgrace to not just her, but her entirely family. The fact that she was carrying the messiah did not take away the shame she would have felt every time someone pointed a finger at her or reduce the fear she must have felt when Herod tried to kill her child.
Will you accept the salutation of the angel if you knew all these would happen? Many of us won’t.
And it’s okay, because our Father knows that. And so for our sake, He sometimes doesn’t completely reveal these hard parts to us.
We have to realize that for every one of us on assignment here on this earth, we will meet these potholes, but we will overcome them.
And so whenever it seems hard, or when those potholes seem too wide or too deep for us to cross, we draw strength from Jesus. He did not give up, instead He accepted the shame of the cross because of the Joy that waited for Him. He is now seated at the right side of God’s throne (Heb 12 vs 2).
All of that shame and pain forgotten. He is our perfect example, the one we fix our gaze upon to draw strength.
The road to the cross may be hard and seem long, but the Glory will be eternal. And we are promised that He won’t let us face anything that we cannot overcome, so if He has permitted it, it is only because He knows that we have been strengthened to come out of it stronger.