Its Not Supposed to be This Way

“I have preached it to you a thousand times.  I will preach it again and again until the end.  The great truth of Christianity, the great truth of Christ, is that sin is unnatural and has no business in a human life.”

_Phillips Brooks, The Consolations of God

Yes, there is evil in this world.

Everyday we are confronted with meanness, badness, and foulness.

Greed and selfishness seem to be the primary motivations of so many.

Violence and its accompanying sorrow, pain, and death haunt our steps.

Life seems to be one long journey of walking down a dark alley in a strange city.

But remember…

Its not supposed to be this way.

Don’t surrender to the darkness.

I know, there’s not much that you can do. But remember this, you are not alone. God has not given up on this world. The original blueprints have not been lost. The Creator is still at work.

The ONE THING for today: In all you do, keep Jesus Christ central and foremost. He is the light of the world and following him will lead you through the darkness and finally to the great and beautiful beyond.

¹⁸ Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. ¹⁹ For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. ²⁰ Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, ²¹ the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. ²² For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. ²⁴ We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. ²⁵ But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Romans 8:18-25, NLT