By Alexa Hazel
You’re probably wondering, “why?”.
That’s not always an answer we get, this side of heaven.
But what if in the hard, we clung to what’s true?
That there’s a good God who loves you.
That genuine hope can be found in Jesus.
That even in the valley of the shadow of death, He won’t leave us.
What if in the mess, we banded together instead of welcoming the divide?
Letting our unity and diversity be a place of refuge and change the tide.
Pray for your enemies,
bless those who curse you, and then maybe they’ll see
Jesus, who suffered in our place on that cursed tree.
A God who was willing to enter into our suffering might be hard to believe,
and yet it’s right there where hope and healing occur, and you can finally be set free.
It may seem nobody cares. It may seem no good can come from this.
Yet, in the dark, may we look to the living God with holes in His wrist.
For you.
For me.
To redeem this wretched world, Jesus died on that tree.
Evil will not win.
It couldn’t hold our God down two thousand years ago,
and it won’t start now.
Come, all who are weary, heavy, and asking “why?”.
His yoke is easy and His burden is light.