Full assurance about Shooting Stars

 

1 John 3:2-3

When I was just a little lad I had many questions about many things; heaven and what that would be like and what would Jesus look like and would we have bodies, would we work, would we eat and drink, would we be able to play football, and would I finely make the team?  It must have been on the minds of many a lad because Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote this song that ask a mother many of the same questions.

When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty, will I be rich Here's what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours, to see Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

When I was young, I fell in love I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day Here's what my sweetheart said.

Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera What will be, will be.

Now I have children of my own They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich I tell them tenderly.

Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera What will be, will be.  (It was first sung by Doris Day in 1956.)

Vanessa Hudgens changed the lyrics and it goes like this: Sometimes I feel like I'm a bird with broken wings At times I dread my now and envy where I've been But that's when quiet wisdom takes control At least I've got a story no one's told

[Chorus]
I finally learned to say Whatever will be will be I've learned to take The good, the bad and breathe 'Cause although we like To know what life's got planned
No one knows if shooting stars will land.  She ended the song in this manner: Whatever will be will be I learned to take The good, the bad and breathe 'Cause although we like
To know what life's got planned Things like that are never in your hands No one knows if shooting stars will land.

There is wisdom in those lyrics, and the apostle John states so clear this message; “Beloved, we are god’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.  And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.” (John 3:2-3)  I’m always encouraged when I find others who ask many of these same questions, the apostle Paul gives this answer in Philippians 3:20-21, “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”  

Vanessa Hudgens, words should ring in our ears; “Whatever will be will be I learned to take The good, the bad and breathe 'Cause although we like
To know what life's got planned Things like that are never in your hands No one knows if shooting stars will land.”  Listen and be encouraged, for all who are in Christ has this hope, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”  (1 Corinthians 13:12)  Paul could have ended it with “No one knows if shooting stars will land.” But he would have added these words, but we have full assurance, we who are in Christ, that God has total control of all the shooting stars that come into our lives.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice