A Certainty in Trouble

The troubles of these troubling days are often compounded by watching the news on television.  While there is nothing wrong with staying current about what is actually happening and learning what the experts say we should do, a steady diet of troubling news is only likely to drag us into deep overwhelming despair.  Keeping the news going in our ears all day long is not really a healthy thing.  It only seems to make the hole deeper.

 

Our all day love affair with someone talking about our troubles makes it difficult to see the blessings which are still coming to us.  And make no mistake, blessings are still coming to us.  They are still coming to us because God has not changed just because we are dealing with trouble.  He is always working in such a way as to bring blessings into our lives.  Is this not what Romans 8:28 tells us?  "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God..."  God has not chosen this difficult moment to take a vacation.  Instead, He continues to work in our lives and to bless us.

 

It may be that our eyes are not disciplined to see.  Or, it may be that we are so immersed in the bad news that our spirit is not receptive to anything else.  But, what we know from past troubles and from what we hear in the Word of God is the truth that blessings are always unfolding around us.  One thing many of us have learned in the dark moments of our life is to look away from the center where the darkness is deeper to the edge where we are able to see that blessings are present.  In the beginning we may only see the kindness offered by a friend.  The more we look at what is on the edge, the more likely we are to see blessings even in the darker parts of our predicament.  What is certain is that we can trust God to bless.