Today, someone is celebrating a birth while someone is grieving a death. Someone is celebrating the remission of cancer while someone is being diagnosed. Someone is dying while someone will live from the donation of their organs. Someone is contemplating suicide while someone else is celebrating this being the best time of their life. Someone is closing the doors of their worship center and a new one is opening. Someone is being fired while someone else is being hired. Someone is looking at the darkness of despair while someone is enjoying the light of happiness.
It’s called life and it’s hard.
Some days it’s harder than you think you can handle. Some days, life makes it hard to breathe.
But it’s life.
Does it make it easier when we still have questions like, why children die, why the innocent perish, why bad things happen, why can’t cancer be cured, etc.. NO!
Yet, here’s what I know. We must hold on to hope. The hope that tells us, it won’t always be like this. Hope that confirms God has us, cares about our wellbeing and He loves us.
Until then, while we have to scuffle with this thing called life, “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13”
Dear God, give us strength to hope. Give us strength to hope in expectancy of the day when all of our troubles will be over. Give us strength to hope even when it doesn’t seem like it’ll work out. Give us strength to hope even when it doesn’t work out the way we thought. For we know if we place our hope in you, there has to be joy that overflows. Hold and comfort us, letting us know we are not alone. Therefore, we will live, walk, run, stand, sit, sleep, and wait in hope. Amen.
Lakisha, the Author 