Light at the End of the Tunnel by Ericka Clay - HTML preview
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
It's been one of those weeks where I'm glad I don't have social media.
I often wonder what my Facebook status would look like:
You know when you're teetering on the edge of total confusion, wondering what the point is of this never-ending rat's maze called life and find yourself mowing the same patch of grass in your front yard twenty-two times in a state of complete mental paralysis? Yeah, no, me neither...time to get my hair did!
I often wonder what David would think of the masks we wear online and often in person. Psalm 55 (which he wrote) has brought me great comfort this week, reminding me life is hard, no matter how "YOLO" people on the interwebs try to play it.
Things can be hard, but it doesn't mean they won't be good.
Things can be hard, but it doesn't mean God's not tending to the outcome behind the scenes.
Things can be had, but it doesn't mean we're not loved in the midst of it.
As followers, we're not promised easy. And the funny thing is? Nonbelievers aren't promised easy either. But as God's adopted children, we are promised His refuge during life's storms.
And I don't know about you, but I'd rather be beneath His protective wing than out in the rain.
The great thing about the Psalms is the "light at the end of the tunnel" they offer when you reach the very end of them (well, except for you, Psalm 88...yeesh, but I get it).
The end of Psalm 55 ends this way:
“Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
But you, God, will bring down the wicked
into the pit of decay;
the bloodthirsty and deceitful
will not live out half their days.
But as for me, I trust in you.”
My prayer is that, like David, we're honest with ourselves and others about the hard of this life. And that we don't lose hope in knowing our God will sustain us.