Today is Halloween and I just had my first kids dressed in scary constumes to my door. These little globlins and monsters still looked cute. But there are scary things happening in the world right now that simply seems out of people's control. People are scared about the upcoming Presidential election and who is going to win. Whoever wins, I pray for God's best for them and the nation as well as all nations around the globe. Today I went to the local jail to visit someone who is locked away from society for a non-violent crime. This young man seemed to have a peace about him as he was trusting God and Jail is not a scary place when God is there among even the least and the forgotten.
People have been watching there TV sets viewing the terrible destruction on the East Coast by a devastating hurricane. Watching people screaming and fleeing their homes in terror as either fire or water was sweeping through their neighborhood leaving a huge path of destruction that will cost billions to replace and repair. People are scared about the economy and the future yet there is a wonderful peace and sense of joy that goes before me as I know God who holds the future for us. Maybe even some people are scared of God. Scared of hell and judgement or think that God is somehow mad at them. As I have been reading the book of Job, here is a man who lost everything and still put his trust in God. I wonder if we lost everything, homes, security, lifesavings, insurances, water, power, and the like, is God enough? Or is our personal happiness and success and prosperity all tied up with the things God has given to us rather than in God? For Job, the one thing he could not stand was God not being with him in his adversity. All Job wanted in the end was God. What do you want in the end?
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