Cup we are given
Thursday, March 30, 2023
No Matter the Beauty,
or Ugly Evil,
God Is With Us
In Every Season.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
Luke 18:31
Then he took the twelve aside and said to them, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.’
Words of Grace For Today
Have a great day!
So we wish others, and wish for ourselves.
But
the world does not always comply with our wishes.
Some days are not great.
In fact some days are some of the worst in our lives, even the worst days in history!
While we may wish for easy, comfortable, luxurious even, days that we can slide through without any great challenges, life is not that way.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
And that means, come what may, it is all going to eventually come our way, too, the good and the evil.
How can we prepare?
For the greatest evil there simply is no preparation that would be sufficient.
We can at best lean on God to accompany us, whatever comes our way.
To take even the bitterest cup with sure hands, knowing that even death cannot conquer us, for Christ is for us, is with us, and will always welcome us home, even in death.
Today may be a normal day, or a great day, or a day that astounds us with amazing things. Or it may be the flip of that, and astound us with the amazing destructive power of evil.
May it be, that we are led to trust God’s presence with us, whatever it may be.