“How are you doing?”
“I’ve had better days…”
“Actually, I’ve had a better string of days leading into weeks, now approaching a month”
People don’t generally want to hear that as a response partly because the question has become a way of saying “hello” and isn’t really meant to illicit an authentic response as to the state of affairs in your life. Graciously that is not always the case and there are people that ask these questions looking for genuine answers because they are concerned for your well being.
As this is hurricane season, and as the gulf coast region has been battered with storms; so has my heart been accosted by the tempest of despair. Not from any rain falling from the sky or winds blowing through, but from the very real pressures of life. From every angle, be it at home, at work or at church there seems to be strong wind of tension flowing through.
What choice have I, other than to persevere through these storms?
Hebrews 12: 1-2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
I draw on this exhortation for the strength to endure, for the vision of the victory already won and to be reminded once again of the grace bestowed upon my most unworthy soul by THE sacrifice. There is no greater love, no greater gift than that given freely to all those that call on Christ Jesus as their savior. His endurance in Calvary gives us a mighty source to draw from as we live our own lives here. This is the true remedy to sustain us through even the greatest of storms.