God isn't Done Yet
Jun 03, 2025 by Addison Crissone
As graduation season comes to a close, as a fellow graduate myself this year, I thought it necessary to write today's blog in honor of the 2025 graduates.
Life after graduation can be overwhelming and paralyzing, especially for those without a place to go and a plan to cling to.
Many of us look forward to the moment when we walk across that stage, but we do not have the slightest inclination of what to do afterward- when the people are not clapping, you've got that diploma in hand, and you are sent on your way into the world.
I don't know what you have faced in your last year of school.
Perhaps a tragedy of some sort has carried you to graduation, or perhaps the recent losses and grief have escorted you across the stage. Maybe you look out into that tumultuous sea of cheering people in that auditorium or that football field, and you do not see the one person you thought would be here to celebrate with you.
I feel you.
But I've got good news for you.
This tragedy-this heartache in your chest, and panic of the future that settles in your bones-is not meant to break you.
You want to know why?
Because God is not done with you yet- your story is only beginning.
There is no mention of the word 'tragedy' in the ancient Hebrew Bible, because there is no word to describe or define such a thing as tragedy in the language. Why is this? Because the ancient Hebrew people believed that if God had not redeemed a situation, then he was not done with it yet. Take Ruth, for example. Look to Job. Walk the roads of redemption with Paul.
Two of these people had lost everything through tragedy, and one was well on his way to being an enemy of God's son. Yet God redeemed them.
My friend, look to Philippines 1:6, and be comforted by Paul's words to the people of Phillipi-
Life after graduation can be overwhelming and paralyzing, especially for those without a place to go and a plan to cling to.
Many of us look forward to the moment when we walk across that stage, but we do not have the slightest inclination of what to do afterward- when the people are not clapping, you've got that diploma in hand, and you are sent on your way into the world.
I don't know what you have faced in your last year of school.
Perhaps a tragedy of some sort has carried you to graduation, or perhaps the recent losses and grief have escorted you across the stage. Maybe you look out into that tumultuous sea of cheering people in that auditorium or that football field, and you do not see the one person you thought would be here to celebrate with you.
I feel you.
But I've got good news for you.
This tragedy-this heartache in your chest, and panic of the future that settles in your bones-is not meant to break you.
You want to know why?
Because God is not done with you yet- your story is only beginning.
There is no mention of the word 'tragedy' in the ancient Hebrew Bible, because there is no word to describe or define such a thing as tragedy in the language. Why is this? Because the ancient Hebrew people believed that if God had not redeemed a situation, then he was not done with it yet. Take Ruth, for example. Look to Job. Walk the roads of redemption with Paul.
Two of these people had lost everything through tragedy, and one was well on his way to being an enemy of God's son. Yet God redeemed them.
My friend, look to Philippines 1:6, and be comforted by Paul's words to the people of Phillipi-
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
God isn't done yet.
