So many things occupy our time, as our lives are filled with the need to accomplish or achieve, … to prove or disprove, … but it does not provide closure to the most consequential matters of the day. For some troubles are brief, … while for others they are sustained, enduring for what characteristically appears to be a lifetime. Life’s sufferings are complex and do not always have simplified solutions or neat endings. One’s affliction is not always the consequence of wrongdoing, just as one’s exuberant display of wealth has nothing to do with their uprightness. … We get this wrong too often. … During my brief time away from you, I have encountered both the brokenhearted and the oppressed, … people simply wanting to matter.
The Bible is full of hope and promise, comprised of 31,102 verses, 929 chapters, and 66 books, however, being okay is not simply responding, “praise God”.
We will all have days, perhaps years (for some) of darkness. Yet it is reassuring to know that scripture does not ignore or minimize our sorrow. Rather, when we’re brokenhearted, Scripture speaks to us with genuine empathy and profound hope.
