When You Don’t Know How It Ends | Mornings with Mico

Good people, what's going on? My name is Meeko and welcome to my one-on-one time with God. This week, we are delving into some of the letters that I've been receiving in response to some of these episodes that we've recorded and using these letters as a source of inspiration to kind of build out our devotionals from this week, just to kind of share with you just the encouragement and just the faith and just some of the things God's doing across the whole country, at least from my perspective, you know, as I'm privy to some of these things, just my people writing letters. So I want to encourage you to continue to write me, responding to these letters, like I'm blessed, I'm encouraged by them and just want to use this platform right now to just kind of put some of what God is doing on display. And today, I want to kick us off with this thought. I want to speak from this thought. Faith isn't knowing how it ends. It's knowing who holds it, who holds the end. Letter came in from Missouri and a guy was writing just in the middle of his uncertainty. It's one of those situations where the future feels unclear, where, you know, you don't necessarily know how things are going to work out. There aren't any easy answers. And as I was reading his letter, honestly, I was kind of expected to hear frustration. But to my surprise, I didn't, right? I didn't hear frustration. I didn't hear fear. You know, I would have thought maybe even hearing some anger, right? But instead, what I found in his letter was surrender. He spoke about how he's really just learning to let go of his own plans and trust God's leadership in the midst of all of this uncertainty. And I'm being vague about, you know, what the situation was, but I think that, you know, that's the framework that, you know, like just that just being in those, you know, situations of uncertainty and where the ending is unclear and things like that, I think that's something

we can all relate to. So I'm just using it as framework, partly as to not cause us to get caught up in my situations worse than his or, you know, things like that. You know, I don't, I don't, I don't want that to, to trip us up. So you, you can fill in, we'll use that as the framework and you can fill in the color, you know, with your own story and see how God speaks to you in that. But I think that as he was just sharing how he's letting to, you know, let go of his own plans and trust God's leadership and learning to release control, learning to trust God, even when he couldn't predict the outcome, right? And the outcome could be, you know, tragic, right? I think honestly, that's easier said than done, but I'm, I'm reminded of a passage in scripture and Proverbs chapter three, starting at verse five, it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding and all your ways submit to him and he will make your path straight. I think most of us we're okay with trusting God after we can see, you know, like how everything is going to work out. Trusting him before the answer comes though, is that's a different kind of faith. Like if, if we're being honest, that, that takes a different kind of faith to trust him in the midst of it. And it's like, if things don't work out, God, this could get ugly. That's that, you know, what is it, Meshach, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego faith, right? Like the, the, the three Hebrew boys in the furnace and saying, Lord, even if you don't rescue us, like, we're going to trust you. I think that as I'm reading this, honestly, I was reminded of something that God's been teaching me. A lot of us want God's hand, but even in those wanting his hand and that, and there's nothing wrong with that, right? Wanting, wanting his hand, wanting him to fix it, open the door, change the circumstance, provide the answer, remove the obstacle, like all of these, like these in and of themselves aren't bad things.

It's like, if I'm in need of these things, like, God, why would I go to anyone else but you? Like, of course I'm going to come to you. But sometimes I believe God is after something deeper in some of the situations that we're experiencing, whereas we're, we're, we're experiencing this uncertainty or this pressure, you know, the world is applying and we want relief and we're seeking God for his hand, for him to be a miracle worker, but he's actually using this situation to invite us into knowing his heart. He's leaving us like linger to tarry in his space of, of uncertainty to keep us postured in this, in this, in this place of trust and hope and belief. In him, I think that if he just simply takes us from bad situation, prayer, deliverance, then we just kind of begin to just lean into this method, this formula. And we see him as like almost a genie in a bottle. I think that a lot of times what God does is he leaves us in this space of uncertainty where we just grow in our closeness to him in that time. I think that when you know his heart, you begin to trust him, even when you don't understand maybe what he's doing. I think that's what Proverbs here is inviting us into. Not necessarily like complete understanding. Not like a detailed explanation, not a five-year plan, but trust. And in some situations, at least in what I'm seeing here in my guy's letter from Missouri and situations that I've experienced myself is, you don't necessarily get the map. Instead, you get the maker. That hits. And I think of your uncertainty and, you know, as your situation is unclear, how things are going to go, Lord. How do we get to this point? Where are we going from here? As you're looking and seeking and hoping and wanting clarity on next steps and how this is all going to play out, what happens when God doesn't give you that map and instead

you just get to know him deeper in it? I think that, um, that is just so like, it's, it's, I don't want to just drop that and as if like that's something that's easy to just embrace. Um, I want to acknowledge the tension that we wrestle with in those spaces, but I do want to encourage you with the understanding that the, that the maker, he's to be trusted. That as God is, he hasn't forgotten you. He hasn't forsaken you. That's something that maybe he's doing. That he knows that only this season is going to produce in you. And I'm leaving you there. Isn't him forgetting about you or him discarding you? It's him saying, no, I trust you with this because I know what I'm doing in this. And maybe he's wanting you to trust him while you're in it and not simply seek him for relief, but trust that, okay, God, I'm not forgotten. And if this is, if this is where you have me right now, or if this is where you're allowing me to be right now, Lord, help me to see this from your perspective. If relief isn't my portion right now, then what is, what is my portion, Lord? And if your presence is all that's available to me in this season, Lord, help me to be full on that. Help me to feel the way that, that I should feel in your presence. May I have an abundance of your presence right now, Lord, that it may be, that it may be palpable, right? And let that be my portion and let that sustain me and strengthen me in this season. The waiting, it isn't wasted. The season you're in, whatever that may look like, I just want to let you know, it's not wasted. Sometimes the waiting is where trust is formed. Maybe that's what God is doing in this season or in a prior season that you may have experienced, but not necessarily walked out with understanding of what that was all about. Maybe that's what he was doing in that season, forming that sense of trust.

Sometimes the unanswered question becomes the classroom where God teaches us who he really is. He uses it as an opportunity to invite us to knowing him deeper, knowing him in a way that we only get to know him through long suffering. We only get to know him through uncertainty. We only get to know him through, you know, desperation and, and, and, and devastation. There's some, there's some things that God like about himself that, that, that, that he hides in no spaces, that it's only revealed. We only get that piece of him, that, that, that aspect of him revealed in those spaces. There are certain things that he produced. He chooses to use those spaces to produce something in us. And so much of this walk is just getting on board with his plan for your life. Even when it doesn't agree with your comfort, even when it's not ideal for how you would want your life to go. I pray that you surrender, seek his perspective and allow his presence to be your comfort in all seasons. Got a question. What are you holding onto that God is asking you to trust him with? Maybe it's the plans, the way that you thought life will go out. I mean, with a plan for pan out certain relationships. Desires, whatever these things are, what are you holding on to that God has asked you to trust Him with? I want to pray for you. Father, I don't always understand what you're doing, but I want to trust who you are. Teach me to know your heart so deeply that I can trust you in every season. Amen.