A WORD FOR TODAY AND EVERYDAY

A Word for Today and Everyday

As I was at home yesterday morning not feeling too swell, I laid down on the couch and turned on the news. The headlines of the day can be very discouraging from the current job market to labor unrest; from earthquakes, wars and rumors of war to political turmoil and violence; from the housing crisis to disease, and so much more. The outlook on this world we live in is very bleak. I was tempted to question where God is in all of this. I was tempted to even question if God was even concerned. But as I continued to watch the news and then recall the Word of God, I began to understand that we have been here countless times before. Just look at the people of God throughout the Old Testament. Time after time, they pulled away from God and then He allowed something catastrophic to occur to turn their attention back to Him. For instance, don’t you think 40 years of wandering in the wilderness would get your attention? So why am I surprised when I turn on the news? Isn’t this what I should expect from a world that has turned its back on God? So where is the hope that we need? Where is the promise that everything will all work out in the end? Is anybody else asking? The Word of God has the answers to all of these questions and all of our problems.

“For I know the plans I have for you” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. THEN you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I WILL LISTEN TO YOU. You will seek me and find me when you seek me
with all your heart. I will be found by you!”
Jeremiah 29:11

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, whoa are called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified, those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:28-32

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39

“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha, and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Revelation 22:12-13

Amen, Come, Lord Jesus.
Aaron Hodges