Thursday November 5, 2009
Hi friends. It is overwhelming the amount of pain in our world. I have talked with several folks in the past few days who are living in immense physical pain. The front page of yesterday’s paper told of a number of bodies found in an Ohio man’s house. The pain the families must be going through. This Sunday is International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Our brothers and sisters throughout the world often live in pain – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, from being persecuted for their faith.
If faith in Christ can’t answer this pain it is quite frankly useless. Faith in Christ doesn’t embrace pain in some stoic fashion. It also does not brush it aside with a smile. Faith in Christ hits pain and suffering square in the jaw and is summed up nicely in the following prayer from Habakkuk. His prayer is my prayer for you today.
Rejoicing in Christ,
Pastor Jefferson
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights.”
Amen! (Habakkuk 3:17-19)
Hanover Church