Do yourself a favor; take your anxious moments to the cross. Leave them there
with your bad moments, your mad moments, and your anxious moments. And may I
suggest one more? Your final moment.
Barring the return of Christ first, you and I will have one. A final moment. A
final breath. A final widening of the eyes and beating of the heart. In a split
second you'll leave what you know and enter what you don't.
That's what bothers us. Death is the great unknown. We're always a bit skittish
about the unknown.
Sara certainly was. Denalyn and I thought it was a great idea. We would kidnap
the girls from school and take them on a weekend trip. We made reservations at a
hotel and cleared the trip with their teachers but kept it a secret from our
girls. When we showed up at Sara's fourth grade classroom on Friday afternoon,
we thought she'd be thrilled. She wasn't. She was afraid. She didn't want to
leave!
As we left, I assured her nothing was wrong. We had come to take her to a fun
place. Didn't work. By the time we got to the car, she was crying. She was
confused. She didn't like the interruption.
Nor do we. God promises to come at an unexpected hour and take us from the gray
world we know to a golden world we don't. But since we don't, we aren't sure we
want to go. We even get upset at the thought of his coming.
For that reason God wants us to do what Sara finally did trust her father.
"Don't let your hearts be troubled," he urged. "I will come back and take you to
be with me so that you may be where I am" (John 14:1, 3).
By the way, in a short time Sara relaxed and enjoyed the trip. In fact, she
didn't want to come back. You won't want to either. Troubled about your final
moments? Leave them at the foot of the cross.
Leave them there with your bad moments, mad moments, and anxious moments.
About this time someone is thinking, "You know, Max, if I leave all those
moments at the cross, I won't have any moments left but good ones."
Well, what do you know? I guess you won't.
He Chose The Nails, p. 144 - 145. Copyright. W Publishing, 2000,Max Lucado. Used
by permission.
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