The End Is In Sight

As I type, I'm surrounded by boxes.  And there's a stack of empty boxes nearby waiting to be filled.

One of the hardest parts of this moving experience is these boxes.  Those who know me best understand that I'm a person who thrives on order.  Who likes a place for everything and everything in its place. A person who does not deal well at all with chaos and clutter.  Having everything out of its place has been a real challenge for me.

When a moving company comes in to do your packing, your house is clean and tidy, and they come in for a day, or perhaps two, to put all your things into boxes to be loaded on the truck the following day.

However, when you are doing your own packing, it's not quite like that.  It's days, and weeks, of doing a little packing every day.  More and more things going into boxes.  More and more disorder.  That's how things are around here right now. 

There's a physical weariness that comes with all this packing.  But the mental fatigue of all these boxes and disorder is wearing on me far more.

The good news is that the end is in sight!  And for that, I am ever so grateful.  Grateful that soon we will be leaving this house and moving into our new one.  Soon things will be in their proper places in their new location.  Soon this will all be a memory.

Until then, I need to stay focused.  Not on the chaos and the clutter, but on the task at hand.

In many ways, this is a picture of life.  Life in this world is full of chaos and clutter and disruption and stress.  Full of all sorts of distractions.  And we need to stay focused.  Not focused on the stress and disruption and disorder.  But focused on Jesus.  Focused on the tasks He has called us to.

Because the end may well be in sight.

"You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth"....and after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.....and [two men in white clothing] said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?  This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven." (Acts 1:8-9, 11 NASB, emphasis mine)