John 16:33

Rain
It’s raining this morning. I like the rain. It equalizes us. No matter who you are or what you have planned, if you step outside during a rainstorm, you will get wet. Nature will do its thing.

Things don’t look good for my girlfriend I wrote about Friday. They will know more at the end of this week, but it is probably going to be a difficult situation. We are praying for a miracle, God could do it. He can do anything, we have seen it before and will see it again. But, He might not. He might let nature do its thing.

This is such a tough concept. Is God mean because he could intervene and chooses not to? Or is God generous because he has not promised a pain-free life and yet sometimes spares us pain? God’s sovereignty is such a tough concept, yet without it, what do we have?

The promise I claim for them and myself and you this morning is found in John 16:33

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

There IS hope for our future, but sometimes our future seems so far away. Until then, sometimes it rains and sometimes it pours.