NOT ALWAYS EASY

NOT ALWAYS EASY

Perhaps the highway of life should be labeled with a road sign that says, ‘It won’t always be easy.’ By now you have certainly noticed. Challenges will come; friendships can change; reversals may occur; loved ones do pass away; and obstacles present themselves at inopportune times and places. It is part and parcel of the human condition.

In 1927, the wife of Arthur Gossip, a Scottish preacher, died suddenly. After burying his wife, he returned to the pulpit and delivered a sermon entitled “When Life Tumbles In, What Then?” In his message, Pastor Gossip compared life’s unexpected crises to observing a plane passing through the sky during wartime. “There you are,” he mused, “lying flat on your back watching that peaceful plane gliding gracefully through a brilliant blue sky when all of a sudden it is blown apart by enemy artillery and falls to earth as a mangled mass of metal. Recently, that ‘gunfire’ was the tragic and unexpected death of my beloved wife.”

Gossip went on to explain that he did not fully understand life, but what he did know for sure was that during this darkest period of his life he needed his faith more than ever. “People in the sunshine MAY believe the faith, but we in the shadows MUST believe it. We have nothing else. Without faith there is no hope.”

My friend, whatever current-in-life you are presently navigating, you must maintain faith in God. Faith is complete confidence in the coming dawn while fully shrouded in the deepest darkness. Faith is a child’s innocent assurance that she is absolutely safe and secure holding onto the strong hand of her father. Faith is the inevitability of victory where lack and loss seem to languish everywhere. Faith is believing what GOD says, no matter what we see.

The Word of God expresses it far better than I:

For we walk by faith, not by sight. (II Corinthians 5:7)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. (I John 5:4b)

Child of God, always know that you have a FATHER who has never been accused of non-support.

Believe. Wait. Trust. Follow.

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!