Good Saturday morning! Once again we are blessed by a weakened hurricane; once more we can say that it could have been much worse. Lives will go on and the recovery will begin soon. How do we know when injury will strike? A famous quarterback in football goes down in his prime, another injury in pro sports; a disaster strikes along the Gulf coast, and people are displaced from their homes; illness or surgeries may strike in our homes at any time. How are we to go on among all the bad news? At times when all the news seems like bad news, we may pray and hope for something new. Instead, I bring you old comfort. What good does that do? It goes something like this...
Just over 2,000 years ago, a baby was born in Bethlehem. That baby, heralded by a chorus of the heavenly host, brought tidings of great joy for us. We have been reminded that on Christ, the solid rock, we stand. At times like this, it is the message that Jesus brought and another reminder of who is Lord that we must give to each other. Upon the solid rock we stand together, with Jesus in our hearts. Does it seem that the world is full of the sinking sands of bad news and disaster? Yes, at times it seems just that way. We don't know if any of us can take one more round of bad news, disasters, sickness or death, and yet we go one, praising God for His infinite mercy and grace. One of the great witnesses we can have in this world is to praise God in the face of extreme difficulties. No one is going to tell you that will be easy, but trust in Christ to give each of us the strength to endure in the face of the tempest roaring through this world. We are so fragile, but our Lord is the sovereign Creator of the Universe.
Watch the sunrise this morning, cloudy or clear, and remember the birth of our Lord,
Bucky
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