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“I
Hope You Know”
“That just shouldn’t be happening.”
If you’ve seen any days of life, those words will surely cross
your lips. When calamities,
tragedies, and things we think just shouldn’t be happening, happen,
those events leave us confused and bewildered, searching, and perhaps even
doubting the very faith we trusted to bring us salvation from our sins.
We forget though, we reach some (most) conclusions in
our lives based on what we have determined is right and wrong through our
knowledge, estimation, understanding, and judgment.
The warning of Solomon bears reminding once more; our own
understanding is not a sufficient prop upon which life may lean (Proverbs
3:5-6).
Through our eyes we see a world where tens of thousands
(if not hundreds of thousands) of lives are impacted through the
devastation of one moment, mere seconds, when the earth would shake and
all that is known in any existence, no matter how meager is devastated.
The images of Haiti have stilled our voices in response and moved
our hearts to compassion. Yet
still, we wonder, why would it happen?
Through our eyes we see a world where the smallest and
youngest among us require tubes and machines; monitors and medicines just
to sustain life. Of all that
is in the world, surely their innocence would be spared such suffering.
Sadly they are not. Visit
any children’s hospital and if you possess any measure of compassion,
your heart will ache for what they must endure.
We see their hurt and we ask deeply and simply, “Why?”
Lest we forget; lest our understanding fail to look to
God’s wisdom of revelation, we no longer live in an Eden, where rain is
not necessary, and tragedy has no residence.
We live in a world, fallen, corrupted, tainted, and diseased by
sin. Not only the world is
subject to the weakness, but now all flesh is as well (Romans 5:12).
The weakness impacting life, all life, is sin, resulting in the
threat of death.
Such a sad commentary on life, but not the final
chapter. From the human
perspective, the mind’s eye of fleshly understanding, this is all we
have to look forward to in this life.
Through the spiritual eye, there is so much more seen.
Walking by faith lifts a veil of limitation and opens our eyes to
endless hope in Jesus Christ. We
are no longer restrained from hope by sin.
We are redeemed to life through Jesus Christ!
Yes, weakness of life is still real, tragedies still occur, the
inexplicable will still exist; but our triumph, our hope, our victory, our
trust, our existence, will transcend all that confuses our lives and
hearts here. If we will
embrace a Spirit led life, we will rise above the flesh, set our eyes on
Jesus, and see the hope that awaits His people (I Corinthians 15:56-58).
I hope you know our lives have yet to see all that is prepared for
the people of God (Isaiah 64:4).
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