“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord…” (Ephesians
5:8, NIV 2011).
“Much better. I changed mattresses on my bed and the pain just went away.”
“That’s good news. I
didn’t think it was cancer but we were going to have to start looking if it
hadn’t improved. But, with the pain gone, you’re okay. One thing I teach the
young doctors I train—‘Bad things don’t get better,’ at least not on their own.
I’m not worried about you anymore.”
It’s not true regarding my life before I knew Christ, lost
from God in sin. God made that bad better on the cross.
It’s not true with the struggles I face on this day in my life,
some caused by my continued self-centered living and some from the natural
complications of a broken world. God’s presence in my life guarantees His
working out all things for good, because I love him and am “called according to
his purpose” (Romans 8:28b, NIV 2011).
It does not have to be true for those who are poor and sick and lonely. Their bad can get better if I am willing to touch them in God’s name.
It does not have to be true for those who live separated
from their Creator—those who, as Thoreau described, “lead lives of quiet
desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” The cross of
Christ is there for them as well. Their bad can get better, by God’s grace, if
someone points the way.
In God’s plan, “bad things do get better” and often He counts on us to work with Him in making the change.
Dear God,
Thank you for making
bad things better in my life. Today, let me be a part of your doing the same
for others.
Amen
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