Pain

Was Solomon right in saying that life is just a journey filled with pointless hard work and endless worries?
A marriage on the rocks, a loved one in sickness, financial insecurity, just to list a few! With these endless problems, it seems that life is just a crisis away from being a disaster. Recently, I received news that my grandmother was diagnosed with late stage cancer and I was gutted. The last few years that I spent in the US, whether in seminary or serving as a pastor, seems like borrowed time. Each time I call home, there seems to be a crisis or disaster – from my Dad’s stroke, his heart attack, my grandmother’s numerous brushes with death, my parents’ auto accident, my arrest warrants for some silly reasons, amongst others. It seems better if I just do not call home… well, I am just living in denial. Surely, the Lord who said, “All things work for the good of those who love Him, those who are called according to His purpose,” (Ro 8:28) knows better! I am worried for my grandmother, not so much for her earthly life for she has lived a long and full life, but for her eternal destiny. Surely the Lord knows my cries over the last decade for her soul.

My friends, I don’t know what you may be experiencing today, but know that our lives are not just a string of coincidences and uncontrolled events put together by a cosmic accident. Today, I find comfort in knowing, Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.