Maybe someday…

This phrase, taken from a song in our Children & Youth Christmas presentation, is that all-too-often thought which, somehow, keeps us going and keeps us from going at the same time. How is that? Glad you asked. Consider this: Nobody wants to witness the strong hurting the weak, or the rich cheating the poor. We long for the day when we love more than we hate; laugh more than we cry; when we give more than we take. And so we say, “maybe someday.”

But there is another side to that coin. It goes a little like this…Maybe someday, we’ll take the time to make that phone call, to send that letter, to stop by, or to make things right. When we say it that way, “maybe someday” begins to take on a little different meaning. Either way we say it, there is a common denominator.

The phrase “maybe someday” has a lot to do with hope. Whether it is our hoping for something to be done, or that we will initiate some action. It is ours to hope for that good day when we will no longer have to say, “maybe someday.” The good news is that we don’t have to get stuck in the maybe. Jesus Christ came to bring a certainty to all the maybes we hear or say. It is a lot like the other words found in the song: “Maybe someday is just around the bend, and not so far away ‘til a Savior will descend.” The hope you and I can have in a relationship with Jesus Christ allows us to embrace the certainty of God’s grace in us. And it assures of God’s grace working through us to others as we live out this season of Christ’s coming.