How to live in a broken world

She has no idea of the evil gripping and ripping into our world, no concept of the tremendous grief and anger surging. I see her smile and I hear their wails. I’m present with her as I pray for them. The enemy whispers that this joy is a betrayal. He is a liar.

We’re not called to live in darkness. We’re called out of it.

So I remind myself that it is good and right to let Jesus keep living large through me, even as I mourn for and pray over this broken world. When I feel fragmented with it all, I turn to Jesus and find over and again that He is big enough to show me how to live in it, understanding that my compassions for man pale before His. He opened His arms wide on the Cross to bleed out an eternal record, and a day is coming when He will set all things right. The refrain of a song I heard last week sticks in ny head, “Hell still knows who lost”.

I’ll leave you with a few more words from the first chapter of Seizing the Good Life.

You and I were purposed to live in these days, and we’ve been given the opportunity to do so indwelt by the power and presence of Almighty God. What privilege! He is with us to strengthen us, comfort us, support us, guide us. When we rush through our lives without seeking Him, we live at the mercy of stress-inducing news that’s always building and breaking. But, praise God, the opposite is also true!

If we live asking Jesus to help us trust Him and make Him our everything, He’ll do that and more.
He’ll establish us and root us, through His Spirit in us. He’ll make Himself the cornerstone of our lives, and then He’ll reach through us to the world around us, through His empowering Spirit in us.

This is our inheritance. We can access the wisdom and power of God while we’re still here on Earth, and our souls can know peace where the world says there is none, all because of Holy Spirit’s presence.

Hugs,
Shellie