Take heart, he has overcome the world

So much has changed in our country and world in just a matter of days. You may be feeling enormous amounts of stress and anxiety when you think about your own future, perhaps in your business, work, health, relationships and more. These are stressful times right now, and let me just say: You may need to have a good, ugly cry. I did last night while watching Fox News reports.

Yesterday, my heart ached as my family and I were in Kearney, Nebraska, for a quick get-away, and you can just see the sadness on people’s faces at restaurants. I gasped when I stared in the windows at Starbucks and no bodies were in the chairs enjoying coffee and conversation. And just last night the governor of Colorado announced the new mandate for public areas that impacts Holyoke too. I’m sure by the time this column is published, new laws will be in place.

You and I are looking at an unseen future, and who knows what the aftermath will be like?

But rest assured as a believer in Christ, you don’t have to live in a state of panic, worry and fear. You have a great hope and future awaiting you — one day God is going to restore all that’s been corrupted and broken. He promises to make all things new. We’re living in the “in-between” where sickness, sin and death remain. But this won’t be forever, and what’s going on in our world are the aches and labor pains until Jesus returns.

The end of our story isn’t darkness and death, it’s glorious and beautiful redemption. That doesn’t mean we won’t have to go through suffering, trials and tribulations on this side of heaven. We will. We are right now. But he’s promised to never leave us in our pain and trials.

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