As your back presses against the cold hard corner walls, it
may feel as if all that matters are the circumstances that pushed you there.
Beyond the confinement of those seemingly windowless walls,
beyond prayers that feel as if they’re bouncing off the ceiling, beyond near
despair, God is at work.
Don’t give up.
Don’t.
“So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even
though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on
the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his
unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming
good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than
meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things
we can’t see now will last forever” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18 The Message).
Despite that small crevice of space in which
you find yourself, there’s a lot happening—things more important than your
temporary situation.
So if you’ve lost your job, if your finances
are closing in, if a relationship is crumbling, if a child is wayward, if
you’re suffering a humiliation because of your own or someone else’s
actions—these things are “ . . . here
today, gone tomorrow.”
Have faith, my dear friend that what really
matters, what really lasts is not the corner, but a God who is bigger than any
tight spot in which you find yourself and who is at work, even now, on your behalf.