Our world is crazy right now.
After being bombarded by news about Afghanistan, new COVID-19 variants, and never-ending government and church scandals, I feel off-balance. Daily life has become polarizing and stressful in unprecedented ways. It seems like everybody has problems and nobody has solutions.
That’s why it was so refreshing to stumble upon this beautiful prayer!
How easy it is to live with You, O Lord!
How easy it is to believe in You.When my spirit sinks
or scatters in confusion,
and the very smartest people
cannot see further than this evening,
and do not know what to do tomorrow,
You send down clear certainty to me
that You exist and that You care,
and will ensure that not all the paths of goodness will be blocked.On the peak of earthly glory
I look back in surprise on the path I have taken
which I would never have been able to invent for myself,
an incredible path through hopelessness
from which I was yet able
to send humanity a reflection of Your rays of light.And for as long as it is necessary
that I keep reflecting them,
You will let me do so.And what I do not finish - well then,
You have assigned others the task.— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Friends, we must never lose hope, no matter how hopeless the world becomes. Our God is the God of all hope and consolation, and He alone can give direction to otherwise directionless souls. The Lord is our rock and our firm foundation, and “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8, NKJV). He alone can provide the constancy we vainly seek in our inconstant world.