LOVE LETTERS|DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR SINGLES|DAY 41

Scripture for Today

Matthew 4:23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. (ESV)

In 1927 the wife of Scottish preacher Arthur Gossip died suddenly. When he returned to the pulpit he preached a sermon titled “When Life Tumbles In, What Then?” In that sermon Gossip compared life to watching  a plane pass through the sky during wartime. There you are, lying on your back watching a plane fly gracefully across a brilliant sunlit blue sky when all of a sudden it is blown apart by gunfire and falls to earth a tumbling, tangled mess of metal. Only on this occasion the gunfire was the tragically unexpected death of his beloved wife.

Gossip went on to explain that he didn’t understand this life, but what he did know was that during this darkest period of his life he needed his faith more than ever. “You people in the sunshine may believe the faith, but we in the shadow must believe it. We have nothing else.” Without his faith there was no hope.

Even when it seems like life is crashing down on you always remember that the same Jesus who did these same things and miracles is still doing the same things today and forever. 

Are you sick? Or afflicted? In this dark moment when all about life is crashing Jesus is still all about doing good. He loves you too much to let you go. Trust him no matter how little.

Prayer: Father, even in my dark moments help me realize you are in it with me.