The Last Promise

Some years are harder than others.  As this one comes to the end of its journey, each one of us probably looks behind to see some times we would never have chosen and some that came as delightful surprises.  Such is the nature of life.  It always has been.  We tend to let the hard times overshadow everything else so that the sunny days seemed like they never happened.  These recent gray rainy days remind us that even when the sun cannot be seen, it is still present.    

When the hard difficult moments come with too much regularity, it is good to be reminded that joy and laughter and even dancing are only a day away.  As surely as the sun is not always seen, but always present, so it is with the goodness in our life.  Goodness is always present because God is always present in our life.  There have certainly been times for us in recent days when He seemed absent, but deep in the inner places of our heart, we know He has never been absent.  

It may have been harder in this past year for us to be aware of Him and His goodness, but the Word tells us very clearly that He is with us.  According to Matthew, His last promise to us was, "And remember, I am with you always... (Matthew 28:20}  It is His Word, not mine.  You can count on it even in the hardest of days.