Our Only Hope

There is an urgency  for us to find a fulness of God’s Reality in a world where everything is under attack.

We need, as the psalmist says, “to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

This is our only hope in the midst of all that surrounds us.

Paul said, “The life which I now live…”

So for each generation, for each individual,

     there is a life given,

           a life to be lived…

And for each one there is something which impulses that life…

Life stretches as a pathway before us, and we live in a time of difficulties.

Looking around the breadth of the world one sees that:

    Peace is taken from the earth.

         Every continent and every nation is affected.

              Civilization is Broken.

                   Man’s order of things has become lost.

                         The way of peace and progress has been abandoned, and                   

                          replaced on all levels with  reactions of emotion.

                               Dialog is forgotten, in homes and between nations.

                                     We are sinking.

The enemy must laugh as he sees us blown about by every theory untethered to reality, and by every impulse of our feelings.

The only path forward for the child of God in this time which is our lot to travel, is to find  a way in God Himself.

We must be able to say with the apostle, “the life which I Now live” I live by that impulse which is the gift of God.

Unless we find a way in God :

     we are at the mercy of all the evil winds which are wreaking havoc with the world around.

              We are, like Samson, without strength before the destroyer... and there can be no hope...our lives and our families unravel day by day, and lostness is our portion for today and tomorrow.

When I was a child growing up in the aftermath of the Second World War I used to hear the phrase,  “a lost world”

Many years have passed, but today instead of progress and a rebuilding of society, we are far more lost than we were then.

Time moves in tides and today the tide has left us with an angry society around, and a church which is weak because it has left the Center of its life.

Safety is not in a place, safety is in God; and we desperately need of God if we are to stand, and not be swept away by the tide.

God calls upon us to call upon Him -

It is a time to leave the trivial things which call us,

And to seek until we find beyond theory and study and tradition,

        and then to go in the strength of that encounter with the Living God,

             finding in Him our strength and sufficiency for the days that await us.