The vapour trail started at the horizon and looked as if it
were headed for the stars. I opened the curtain this morning to a beautiful
blue sky slashed by this stripe of white.
Is that what a nuclear missile headed our way looks like? I
wondered. No, we probably wouldn’t have such advance warning.
Hearing about the awful destruction and loss of life in
Turkey and Syria this morning. Earthquakes are natural forms of sudden destruction,
the threat of which I lived with in California. (The ‘big one’ still hasn’t
come, though it’s been anticipated since I was a child crouching under a desk
during our earthquake drills). There is no real way, yet, of predicting when
such a catastrophic event will occur.
A Ukrainian friend showed me a picture yesterday of a block
of flats in Kiev, then a picture of her friends huddling in a shelter during an
air raid, followed by a picture of that same block of flats immediately after
the strike, now damaged and ruined.
We are about to go to the funeral of a dear friend who,
though in her 80s, was active and apparently well and full of life. She passed
away peacefully during a night. No warning. A shock to her family, to her
friends. A blessing to her.
How can anyone walk peacefully through this world without
the assurance that Jesus walks with us? I am so grateful for all the assurances
given in Scripture, that we have a faithful, powerful Saviour who never leaves
us, who never forsakes us, who always loves us and who waits to welcome us into
his everlasting Kingdom. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit Jesus sends to
live in us and give us that assurance, that whatever transpires, all will be
well.
May we all keep our eyes fixed on Jesus today, the author and
perfecter of our faith, our redeemer and Saviour of the world.
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