I've decided that the only ones in the world who haven't experienced times when life keeps giving you blow upon blow are the young. And even some of them have faced it.
We jokingly call some days Murphy's Law--the day the plumbing backs up, the baby's sick, and you burn the rice. But when life's true hurricanes hit, there's no laughing over it. Those times when you get "the call." The malignant tumor, the death of a young mother, the son who has chosen a wayward lifestyle, the betrayal of a loved one.
These are the times that when our heart feels heavier than the rest of our body, or as one of my friends recently put it, "a black fog" settles over us. Maybe times when we'd like to scream, "No, God, stop this now!" Or times when death has given a final answer we didn't want.
What can we do when life just keeps coming at us? In chapter 8 of "Do You Think I'm Beautiful, Angela Thomas tells us that God gives one answer only. "Be Still and know that I am God." The answer is enough. It's up-to-date. It works.
Casting our care upon God, being still in His presence, and trusting that He is still God, on His throne in the heavens, will give birth to Hope. It may be a tiny gleam at first, but Hope is the one thing the human heart cannot live without. We need to know that God can still provide. He can still heal. He can still restore. We need Hope.
Our God is called The God of Hope. I'm so thankful He has that name because when life just keep coming at us, sometimes the Hope we have in Him is all we have at all.
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