Not every season is meant to be understood while you’re living it. Some seasons are meant to be trusted.
God’s message for you today:
“You don’t have to understand this yet.
I see you trying to make sense of what’s happening. Trying to find the lesson. Trying to figure out why this is the season you’re in, what you’re supposed to be learning, how it’s going to make sense one day.
Just be in it. Be in the season. Be in the not-knowing.
– Jacqueline Whitney
You don’t have to know any of that right now.
Some things only make sense in hindsight. Some seasons can’t be understood from inside of them. Some chapters you’ll read back through later and finally see what you couldn’t see while you were living them.
Stop forcing yourself to extract meaning from a situation you’re still in the middle of. The clarity is coming. The understanding will arrive. But it doesn’t have to come tonight, and it doesn’t have to come from you.
Just be in it. Be in the season. Be in the not-knowing. Trust that one day, the meaning will reveal itself, and you’ll see what I was doing the whole time.
Until then, rest. The understanding isn’t yours to manufacture. It’s mine to give. And I’ll give it when you’re ready to fully receive it.”
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
