I was feeling so much brighter since the last post I penned here but this morning I read an email that wasn't bright. My Aunt has found that her body is riddled with cancer. They don't know what kind yet. She has nine children, the youngest two still very dependent on her. God's the same loving and gracious and capable Father He was yesterday but we need Him more urgently today.
We're given a promise. Just a promise. He's kept every promise He's ever made so He'll keep this one too. In the meantime, death kills, pain hurts, sin steals, sorrow weeps...How long O Lord? It's a good promise. A promise of life. A promise of hope. Enough to keep us living and hoping a midst a dying and desperate world? Living in a war zone with the promise of peace. Come Prince of Peace. Come heal this land.
We get a taste of joy. We get a glimpse of peace. But then the tears wash away the smile and the rain closes up the flowers. We remember that we're living in a cursed world and we beg for Your finished work. Complete your redemption O God. Complete it in our hearts and lives and families and world. Don't be far off. Come close and near. Come our Healer and Saviour. Complete your perfect work. We need you.
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