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I saw this quote the other day and
it really touched my heart! Did you need to see and read this little
statement of hope today? I have a feeling that many men and women in
our own generation are fighting very hard, fighting with all of
their might, not to give into despair. There are so many factors or
situations or cultural infirmities that threaten to bring despair
into our lives, and no possible way we can give voice to them all.
My thoughts today go to the innocent children who are just trying to
survive another day in lands devastated by war or famine. My
thoughts today are of folks in our own backyard who wonder if they
are going to have a job next week, or maybe they have been looking
for weeks or months with no job in sight. I'm thinking today of
friends who have recently lost a loved one and are really having
trouble seeing any light in the midst of the "fog" of grief.
If we experience a full-on assault from despair, finding ourselves
enveloped by its darkness, we may have trouble finding hope, seeing
hope, or experiencing hope. We may even get so discouraged that we
turn away from the hope that we may have experienced in the past,
finding it no longer powerful enough to bring us back into a
peace-filled haven.
The message of Easter is like a trumpet call... a call that is going
to WAKE US UP AND GET OUR ATTENTION... loud, clear, and piercing
through the white noise of division and despair right when we need
it the most! Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed Hallelujah! These
words have power!
These words can do battle against Despair like nothing else, and can
actually bring Victory to the weary soul! These words lead us
towards The Risen Lord Jesus, who has conquered sin, death, and the
grave so that life eternal may be ours... our inheritance from a
loving Father in Heaven. These words have the power to transcend any
brokenness that we are experiencing in our life today, because we
know that God is with us through any circumstance, and that whatever
we are facing now will not endure forever. These words, being far
more than words, but instead statements of eternal and life-giving
truth, are just what we need when despair comes knocking at our
door.
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Christ is making us into the kind of
people who don't give into despair, for the resurrection has put a
song in our heart that we can sing even in the hardest of times.
Thanks be to God, Amen.
[Ryan Edgecombe
Broadwell Christian Church]
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