“We can dig our way out of this,” says the romantic, and this is a good attitude. Maybe we can; but maybe we can’t.
To “look on the good side” only , without considering our days and utter need of God’s message of hope for today and tomorrow leaves us in the pathway of dismay or worse––that of indifference and passivity.
We should have great concern, enormous gratefulness and amazement at the perils of history, life today and our own vulnerability. The end of our capacities and opportunities are real.
The luxury offered us in the Gospel of God, is that in everything we can, give thanks; for this is His will concerning us. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Joseph was the favorite son of his father, Jacob. This favor aroused jealousy among his brothers enough that they deceived Jacob into believing that Joseph had been killed. Instead, Joseph’s brothers sold him to a caravan of Egyptians. There in Egypt Joseph faced a host of extreme difficulties and further betrayal.
Before Joseph saw God’s purpose in his life, he developed an attitude of “You meant if for evil; but God meant it for good.” He later shared this to his brothers. (Genesis 50:20)
God is not to be ignored. Fear of the Lord is, after all is the beginning of wisdom. But He is such that for those who know Him, He is loved and revered. (Proverbs 9:10)
“This day,” and every moment too, “is a day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).
Even if the season of our plight is as Joseph, mired in a prison of someone else’s making, God will deliver us and He will turn darkness to light. Sometimes we turn to Him best in circumstances which are the worst. He then becomes to us the Potter who remakes lives.
Joseph is a legacy to us of how to face anything in our path. He was moral. He was faithful. He walked in the assurance of God’s goodness. He hadn’t witnessed the life of Christ on earth. He had not seen the resurrection as a fact of history. He had not heard the completed story. We don’t know everything either.
The devastation our fellow Americans face in the North East, the brutal deaths of our fellow Americans in Libya. The sorrow that millions of children not lucky enough to have been born in America and whose poverty is real and not their own fault, every death, every crippling disease––do these catch our eye? They should. We are fool-hearty if we just “Thank our lucky stars.”
Our hearts should ache. Christ’s does. He gave Himself a sacrifice as the only cure. Those without Him face an eternity of sorrow: that is His message; not mine.
We see fiction films showing the walking dead. Do we see the stark reality of it? The devil means if for evil. The LORD means it to awaken us; to stir us from complacency.
Jesus came to take our sin away, to heal broken hearts and fill them with hope, to bless and not to curse.
Be awed friends by all that is happening. In that awe, be Christ’s ambassador. Don’t think you can change much in people. He does the changing. Share Him with them, don’t keep Him to yourself. “The blind see, the maimed are healed, prisoners are freed, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.” Jesus said this. (Matthew 11:5)
Were it not for the Gospel preached, barbarism world not have been overcome in history. Without the Gospel preached, it is returning.
Suffering is inevitably the result of sin. Salvation from a suffering eternity changes a person. They see the suffering as what brought them to the Lord.
Oh, what joy believers experience. The “Outstretched arms” of God in Christ and the “Mighty hand” stretched forth for all mankind on Calvary was God’s answer to sin-caused suffering.
He came to take away our sin, to take away the sting of death, to implant certain hope and to grant complete assurance, to satisfy our longings.
So, friends, look around, someone is crying. They don’t know they weep because they are not at home with Christ. Please tell them.
Buddy
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