Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is: Outcome.
The word brings a smile as I think of his comment just last night: “Why are you watching this? You know she dies in the end.”
Why do we watch re-runs when we already know the ending?
We watch anyway. Nothing will be any different. Nothing will change. Yet we watch. We even offer commentary. But something is different during the repeat.
During the re-run – the tension, the pressure, the anxiety, the worry, the stress, the concern – all the negative emotions are not present. We watch with a certainty, with a confidence of the outcome.
Paul, in his letter to the Romans, tells us to live very much in this same manner.
“Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Romans 8:35, NASB)
Each of these things faced by the early believers were difficult, stressful, and life threatening. Life can be that way at times for us as well. Paul goes on to tell us that we can rest, confidently and assured, in this one truth:
“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us..” (verse 37, NASB)
Somehow in the end,
we will be the victors.
We know the outcome.
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