These last 18 months have been brutal on everyone! Covid has been a killer! Killer of lives, killer of hopes, jobs, freedoms, unity, work/home life balance, fun.......sadly the list goes on. We have all been affected one way or another whether getting sick ourselves or battling with the side effects of our friends, family and colleagues getting sick.
Personally this year has been a tough fight for me as well. It has been a year of loss. Loss of relationships I valued, loss of my sense of self and for me the hardest, loss of my beloved baby cat, Ginger, he turned 16 years this year. Harder still, over the past two months I have struggled severly with my health.
With all the heart ache, where do we find consolation? We can can only find consolation in Christ alone!!
Isaiah 53:3-4 "Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed."
Jesus Christ Knows!! Jesus knows our pain, our sorrow, our loss, our heartache, he knows it all and from the expanse of eternity he reaches out his nail pierced hands and says, "Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest!" Come to me, when life makes no sense, come to me. Know that I understand every bit of your pain and I love you, you are my child and I care for you!
When we silence the fear and rest for a moment, we hear the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit breathing life over us. He wraps His arms around us and tells us that indeed we will be okay, because God is with us. We can rest easy in His arms knowing that all of creation is under His divine control.
