Day 358 I Just Don't Know..........

I am at a loss this morning about what to write.  I want to say something about the tragedy in Boston yesterday but what can I say?  I remember a catch phrase from an old radio show, maybe the Green Lantern or something similar, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man?"  I can't imagine what evil, what anger, what unforgiveness, what frustration someone must be feeling to make them want to express it by killing and injuring so many innocent people.  What on earth do they think it might accomplish?  I just don't know. 

Here is what I do know.  That sort of anger and resentment is like cancer.  Unforgiveness is like cancer.  It destroys from within.  Sometimes it quietly grows with very little evidence until it has reached a point where it explodes and then it's just too late to do anything about it.   I also know that the person who did this doesn't know God, doesn't know that no matter what, God loves him, and that God is truly everything.

In my reading this morning, I read that He is my rock.  He is my refuge.  He is my shield.  He is my savior.  He is my promiser.  It says in Hebrews 11:8 that:

"By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going."

Abraham didn't know where he was going.  A writer commented that he leaned not so much on the promises as on the promiser.  I guess, at this point, that is what we have to learn from this.  That no matter how bad things get, no matter how the cancer might have spread, no matter how prevalent evil might be, no matter how many of God's promises we stand on to take us through, it is, in the end, the Promiser that we have to lean on.

Precious Lord, Jehovah Rapha,
We acknowledge today that it is You and only You that we lean on to take us through this tragedy, through cancer, through the loss, the disappointment, the pain and the sorrow.  We know that only through Your love can we handle all that comes at us in this lifetime.
Father, we ask that you wrap your comforting and healing arms around the people of Boston today and around everyone affected by the tragedy that took place there.  We know that regardless of what happens, You are still on the throne and we worship You.
In Jesus' name, the name above all names.
Amen