When questions about what is right, what is good, and what is responsible are swirling above our heads like gnats, we still follow a resolute and decisive Savior. We can find, in Jesus, the absolute clarity we are longing for right now.

Certainty is in short supply these days.

For weeks upon weeks, we have as a people looked at charts and graphs. We have heard predictions and prognostications. We have observed advisements and opinions. And none of them, no matter which side of the aisle you sit on, have been right. At least not completely right.

And now we still sit, as a people, trying to decide what the right thing to do is. I, at least, am not entirely sure. I don’t know the right answers about gathering, about crowd sizes, and about how to love my neighbors. I am confused over what the next few months will hold from a social, economic, and emotional standpoint. Never before, it seems, has “certainty” about very much of anything been more of a moving target.

The lack of clarity can be maddening. It can interrupt your sleep and cause anxiety during the days. It can paralyze you into indecision about even the simplest of tasks. But, as with all things, the degree of uncertainty in our world can also be an opportunity. Specifically, it can be an opportunity to look to Jesus and find there the decisiveness and sureness of purpose that we so long for in all areas of life right now.

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