We have safely arrived in the USA! The journey wasn’t too bad (thanks to your prayers, the boys were very good during the 14.5-hr flight!) but we’re struggling with jet lag.
The first night, Micah and Joshua didn’t sleep at all and then slept during the day … the second night (tonight) Micah is sleeping pretty well but Joshua is crawling around. Roy and I are also wide awake even though we’re pretty tired!
It’s made me think about how difficult it is to do night shifts (thank you medical professionals, security officers, construction workers, etc.) and also how hard it is for our bodies to adjust to change.
What about the mind? God decried the injustice people practiced in His name:
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!” (Isaiah 5:19-21
When we finally get to know the “Light of the World” there may be a time of spiritual jet lag where we are trying to adjust to the seismic shift in worldview. It takes time and concerted effort to try to see things the way God sees them after a lifetime of seeing things the way our own culture, upbringing, education and preferences have inclined us.
But God encourages us:
“I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them.” (Isaiah 42:15)
He who recovered the sight to the blind will guide us to a new dawn. He who sleeps not will keep us company in the darkness until our eyes adjust to His glory.
by: Jinha Kim
"But those who drink the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14