Table of Faith…

24 years old.

No, the Table is not twenty-four years old…

I was twenty-four when I bought it.

I brought it home to my bachelor high rise apartment…

And proudly set it in front of my couch…

Certain the table and I would live in that apartment for a long time.

I was wrong.

Because only God knows.

Soon the table was loaded onto a moving van…

Headed to a new city, where I had a new job.

I carefully placed the table in my townhouse living room…

Thinking the townhouse would long be my “bachelor townhouse”.

Wrong again.

A few months later…

The table sat there as I carried my new bride across the threshold.

Proving once more that only God knows.

 Next the table sat in the family room of our first little house…

on the day we  brought our daughter home from the hospital.

I couldn’t even have imagined that day when I bought the table for a bachelor apartment.

But God didn’t have to imagine it.

He knew.

Because Only God knows.

When our daughter was five years old…

We moved to a house with more than one bathroom…

Making us a much happier family.

This time the table moved to the basement.

Our daughter and her friends played on it through kindergarten and grade school and middle school.

Years have passed since then…

The table now sits in the basement of another house in another city.

Once again children play on it.

Our daughter’s children.

Who could have imagined?

Only God.

Because only God knows what will happen next.

Yet He asks us to move forward in the midst of our doubts and ignorance…

Trusting not in our circumstance or in ourselves, but in Him…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  Proverbs 3:5

Putting our faith not in the visible things of this world…

…faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Nor despairing of the evil in this world…

But moving instead with faith, hope and love toward the world He has promised…

…according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.  2 Peter 3:13