I don't just mean the usual, busyness of life type of stuff. I mean big things. Life-altering, world changing events. Paradigm shifts. Decisions are being made that will affect the lives, and deaths, of millions--perhaps even billions--of individuals for years and even decades to come.
Take our upcoming presidential election. Hanging in the balance of this process is the direction of our nation not only on fiscal matters, but matters of morals and ethics, faith and freedom, security and survival. This is being called by some as the most important election in our lifetimes. That's a big responsibility.
We are also a nation at war. We've been at war for so long, many don't even realize it anymore. That reality slapped me in the face this past week when I received news of a young man from our church being killed while serving our country in Afghanistan. Please pray for his wife, two young children, and family.
Disease and famine. Global terrorism. International internet hackers taking out huge sections of the net. Earthquakes and cataclysmic storms. Uprisings and rebellions. Nations ripped apart by divisions and dissensions.
It would be easy to lose hope. It would be easy to think there is no answer.
But there is.
God.
God is the answer. I say that neither casually nor flippantly. It is not a pat answer just thrown out there to satisfy my title as a Christian. I say that with all seriousness and gravity. God is not an answer, He is the answer.
Whether the question be about our nation, our families, our individual decisions and struggles, it is to God that we should look. Need strength? God is the answer. Comfort? He is there. Provision? All comes from God. Courage. Perseverance. Patience. Hope.
God. God. God, and God.
Him. Only Him.
He is the answer.
Always and forever.
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