There’s A Reason

 

There’s a reason for everything

Even when it’s unknown to you

And a purpose for all that happens

Even if you don’t know of that too.

A picture paints a thousand words

Is a saying that that we know very well

But if those pixels were separate

How could you that picture tell?

Events that happen to you and to me

Are the pixels in the picture of life

So that often we cannot understand

Those events that cause us strife.

We often believe we understand

Those experiences that fit our plan,

These are occurrences that bring us favour

And are prescribed by the heart of man.

“Life is lived forward and understood

Backwards,” somebody once said

But by the time that we understand

That event is long passed and dead.

 

You see understanding only comes

When events are strung together

That paint a picture we afterwards see

To partially assess some matter.

Remember, we don’t repeat history

Though intelligent minds say we do,

It’s life’s mistakes we rehearse again

As in a movie it’s Act-one Scene-two.

Life is not a canvas on which we paint,

It’s more like the brush we use

And all the strokes we daily make

Are to paint the picture we choose.

We see the bigger picture of life

By way of a single myopic lens

Believing that what happens in that regard

Should mostly to our benefit portend.

  

And when prognoses prove incorrect

And the reason to us is unknown

We chastise the Creator of all of life

For altering our picture’s colour tone.

 

We forget that our individual affairs

Are selfish agendas in our life’s scheme

And the God of all creation overseas

All that happens on the earthly scene.

Absolutely nothing is hid from Him

Not one iota and not one jot,

His picture has been painted already

Time is revealing each pixel and each dot.

So much of the puzzle we can’t explain

As we appraise its panoramic view

But while only now unfolding to us

It is what its painter already knew.

The big questions of life He knows

Our origin, our purpose, our destiny,

The hairs on our heads he numbered

And established them from eternity.

So there’s a reason for everything

Even when that purpose is unknown to us,

The Only One knows such a reason

God the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus.

 

You may marvel that I said the Only One

And then proceeded to number three,

That’s one of the questions I can’t explain

But I accept its authenticity.

For the Bible shows clearly this is so

When stating the attributes of these Three

And the best we can in our limited language

Is to express God as a Tri-unity.

How can someone be three and yet one?

That question is for you, not me

For once God’s Word conveys that point

I merely declare it’s the reality.

For while I will attempt to understand

I know I won’t always succeed

Especially regarding what God reserves

And in my own understanding impedes.

These secret things belong to God

And He knows why there are not revealed

But those things He has revealed to us

Make Him still worthy of our appeal.

In Him we live, move and have our being

That’s according to Acts 17 and verse 28

And the choices we make in the here and now

Will determine our eventual and eternal state.

 

To everything there is a season

And a time to every purpose under heaven,

In six days God created heaven and earth

And rested on day number seven.

A fitting demonstration of His omnipotence

And omniscience throughout the ages,

There is a reason for all that He has done

And all that pertains to life’s stages.

Our response to the vicissitudes of life

And the complex issues that frequently arise

Is to trust the One who has all the answers

And what He abhors we should also despise.

Stewart Russell © 2017