EVER

The one fascinating element to words with a tonality of absolutism is how hard it is to police their completion. Forever is a long time. It is far longer than any of us will live in this life. And never or ever aren’t much better terms of making sure that we are able to keep them as a vow.

Still I hear some people utter those words every day. At first I was impressed by such vows. That was until I witness the times when the word became nothing more than a vapor that disappeared in times of circumstances.

Even knowing this doesn’t keep me from occasionally indulging in the same vocabulary. Until I find myself remembering how silly it is to try and play the prophet if not so called.

In reality I can’t help thinking that ever and its offspring of control are in many way a form of putting our faith in ourselves rather than God. To surrender those terms to his sovereignty is to accept his being Lord over all.

No matter who well we understand that for some it will be a more challenging labor than others. There are those for whom the word ever and its derivatives will always be a playground for their sense of security.

Thus I do what I can to allow the words to enter my soul via a path to Heaven. Ever being a certain only in that domain.

Perhaps in some ways that is part of what makes heaven such an abode of peace. For God keeps his word. He does what he promises. And in his presence where our voice is one inspired by his spirit we too can use those words with certainty.

Until then there will always be the “ever” drones that peddle some form of ever with the illusion that we really do have some control over life. It will always appeal and always find an audience since it makes man out to be god.

That maybe be one reason why such teachings will always be more popular even in church circles than those emphasizing faith. Still the game continues. We will always find it and the rules will always change.

However maybe at some point if we go weary of evers that never take place or its offspring that also fade in reality we will at last listen to God’s voice of reason. Again the question is maybe. That too is not a guarantee.

Meanwhile each day we have the choice to surrender to the evers of life and own illusions or turn to gaze upon our Savior whose throne will truly last forever. Perhaps it will bring a moment of sanity in our race to try and create our own throne too. All the time God in his abounding grace listens and watches and is ready to help lift us up when we stumble over too many of those ever vows.