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Can I Trust God When Life Falls Apart? Faith Through Adversity
Even amid confusing adversity, when our spirits feel crushed beneath a weight of sorrow, disbelief in our predicament, and hints of despair, God gives His children a fresh opportunity each day to lift their defeated gaze from their problems and embrace the certainty of His character. This offering from Christ is as dependable as the sunrise itself. For my human heart, this becomes a deliberate divine decision, as my life feels unexpectedly broken, leaving me entirely undone and overwhelmed. However, I am learning that peace and new purpose arise from my tumultuous struggles as I turn my attentive gaze to Christ Jesus. Most often, I still lack clarity of thought…
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Social distancing provides the provision of prayer
This morning I was thinking of the importance of prayer during this outbreak of corona-virus. We may not be able to get together with each other, but we can pray. We can pray for our community, national and local leaders, church leadership, families, the elderly, parents who are struggling financially because they can’t work from home, parents with school age children who are now at home, loved ones whom we cannot travel to see; pray for those living in nursing homes, sick in hospitals, nurses, doctors and those incarcerated. PRAY! The list is endless of who we can pray for. Nearly daily I receive a message from a young teen…
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FEAR. FRENZY OR FAITH
Walking through the grocery store yesterday I stopped to talk with a friend who was also shopping. As we chatted between the crossroads of chips and dairy, I became aware of my surrounding. “Stop and listen.” I told him. We both stopped and inquisitively looked around. The store was packed with afternoon shoppers; but no one was talking. They were quietly moving around the store loading up their carts. “Don’t you find this odd?” I asked. “That’s fear.” He observed. The day before in another larger store I came face to face with another kind of fear. It swept through the store with panic, rudeness, carts rushing the isles at…
