THANKFUL

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Lord, the many crisis we face today is as never before. “These are the worst things to ever happen in the history of the world,” we moan, overwhelmed. “It’s hopeless!” When was the last time the media gave good news? Your followers are supposed to be united as one with Christ, yet we are divided by politics. Despite epidemiologists’ best efforts, disease and plague roam the earth. Unemployment. Riots. Racism. The doom and gloom culture has taken center stage. All this is nothing new. “What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new?’ It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time” (Ecclesiastes 1:9–10). When we study Your Word, we see Your believers went through similar situations that seemed hopeless, yet You intervened at the right time to deliver them amid their troubles. “Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us,” Paul wrote. “And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled” (Romans 15:4). May we as individuals and as a nation return to You, Lord God, in repentance from our straying from Your precepts and values. Help us hold on, Lord. You will come through for us.

You are and always have been our answer to this fallen world’s woes, Lord. Amen.