I just typed, and deleted, three paragraphs full of good stuff about the uncertainties of life. But, we all know all of that.
Instead, I need to remind myself of something else right now - God is big enough to handle my questions, and my disappointments, and my grief, and my pain, and my frustrations, and my anger. And that’s good, because I have lots of all of those things going on in my mind and in my spirit right now.
Jesus said, “I have overcome the world” [John 16:33]. But it sure doesn’t look like it right now. It kind of looks like Satan’s winning big in the fourth quarter.
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” [Matthew 5:4]. Well, I’m mourning, but I sure don’t feel blessed for it right now, and comfort seems far away too.
And why isn’t life fair?
And what ever happened to, “And they all lived happily ever after”?
So many questions; so few answers.
I think maybe that it’s in times like this that all we can do is lean on those who have always been there for us. Like us, they don’t have any good answers either. Like us, they are weeping too. But somehow, their faith in the goodness of God remains, even when it can’t be seen by us. Somehow, they know that God is still “here with us”, even when our grief hides His presence.
And somehow, because of them, I know that God is still good too. I know that God is still here too. Even when life isn’t fair. Even when the “happily ever after” is gone. Even when it looks like Satan is winning. Even when I’m mourning.
And in an unfair world, that is a wonderful blessing.
Ambrose Ramsey | Shepherd
