In light of recent events in Paris...and Syria...and Japan, and many other places around the world, you've got to wonder, is our world disintegrating? It gets difficult to hold out hope when there's so much tragedy in our face everyday. The highest trending hashtag right now is PrayforParis and PrayfortheWorld. And we should. We should pray for the world and the victims and families of tragedy. But we are also called to take physical action. To stand up for the victims - the orphans and widows. And so we remember 2 Corinthians 4.16-18:
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Remember that the One we serve sees us, and hears our prayers. In these difficult times, resist the urge to hide your head in the sand, to forget the troubles of others, or to focus solely on your own troubles. You are called to something greater - to fix your eyes on the eternal. Let that be the window that you look through to be a part of the solution.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Remember that the One we serve sees us, and hears our prayers. In these difficult times, resist the urge to hide your head in the sand, to forget the troubles of others, or to focus solely on your own troubles. You are called to something greater - to fix your eyes on the eternal. Let that be the window that you look through to be a part of the solution.
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