It's been a really hard week. I can't share details really, but all I will say is that I had to make a tough but necessary call the other day. It was pretty horrific.
It's been amazing for my character though. This week I have experienced the carnage of a very hurt, tragically broken world. It's a total mess. And it reminds me of the need for a broken, betrayed down and out saviour, who conquered death and all of his friends.
And yet this evening at around 5.30pm, as the sun was setting, as light bounced around, and dancing in step with the moon, the sun lit the view from my bedroom window with a spectacular, moody half light. The trees were at war with gravity as they clutched the sky, trying to drag the stars to earth. And the sky was fighting too, fighting the darkness, trying to stay alive. It could not. It was inevitable. But light will have its day at dawn.
Only the creator God could make such a beautiful world. And only such a God could redeem it. Can I wipe away all of the stains of human misery? Can I tell the sun to shine in the day or the moon to glow at night?
It is God who does such things. It is God who justifies. It is God who rescues. And his name is Jesus. Come Lord Jesus! Come Lord Jesus! Wipe away the tears from our faces, the tears of children and adults. The tears of those who long for the world to be transformed into the fullness of the kingdom you have promised through your Son. Come Lord Jesus!
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