Today no, tomorow yes

When human beings live immersed in frustrating realities, too often we forget that life goes on, that with a little patience and effort on our part we will get by. Not always the circumstances that surround us in a moment will be similar in the future. There is a saying that says: "There is no evil that lasts a hundred years ... nor a body that resists it." By it we mean that in one way or another, evils, whatever they may be, always happen.

In a letter, a friend wrote a phrase that struck me: "If something can't be today, that doesn't mean it can't be tomorrow." He was referring to certain projects that we had planned together that had not been able to materialize. Very saddened, I had written to him lamenting the time that had elapsed and expressing all my frustration at not having achieved what we planned.

My friend was right. Only a few years later, the circumstances were favorable and although everything did not go exactly as we planned then, the project in itself turned out, by the way, in a very successful way! If you are reading this devotional today it is precisely because that project could be fulfilled.

For that reason, in any situation in life we must cling to faith and hope. Which implies that we should not give in to inconveniences and think that there will be no possible solutions to our problems, even if those solutions are not exactly the ones we can envision. Our condition as human beings, full of limitations, sometimes prevents us from being able to see all the possible solutions or solutions under certain circumstances.

The story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19 is very interesting. The prophet, fearful that Queen Jezebel was looking for him to end his life once and for all, said to God: "Only I have remained of your prophets." It is evident that Elijah was convinced of this. But God had other data, by the way, very different from those of the prophet who considered himself the only survivor. God knew there were many more, exactly seven thousand! For Elijah, he was the only one in Israel who had not bowed the knee to false gods, for God, he was part of a crowd. That is why Elías also wanted to die in the shade of a juniper, as you and I do when we do not have divine possibilities.

I think that many times it happens the same. You and I have such a limited view of reality that we only see a single solution or we simply don't see any. God, from his perspective, has other statistics and other data, much more true than our timid appraisals. What for us is impossible, for him it is not. Since we cannot look to the future, it is possible that sometimes God smiles when He sees us suffer for those things that we believe are impossible or unattainable.

And it may be that he shouts at us from heaven —although it is hard for us to hear him through our deaf ears—: “Hey, don't you realize that I am God? Just wait and see.

My friend was definitely right. "If something can't be today, that doesn't mean it can't be tomorrow."

God bless you!