A thunderous crash sounded outside
my friend, Tina’s house. The booming noise was so loud, she even wondered if a
plane went down. She ran out and discovered a car had crashed into her brick
mailbox. Thankfully, the driver was okay, but the collision sent bricks and car
parts flying as much as sixty feet away from the point of impact.
Yet, a nest in an unused paper
box landed intact still with the spent egg inside.
I’ve been thinking about that fragile
nest, how it was unharmed amid so much destruction.
Sometimes, we scan the landscape
of our lives and in every direction we look, it seems as if one event could
send circumstances spiraling into a cacophony of destruction.
Life can feel so transient and
fragile. That’s because it is.
A single happening can cause the
dominos to fall for what seems like infinity.
,
We find this verse in Colossians
1:17, “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
As the delicate nest held
together amid the flying bricks, the God who was before all things―holds our circumstances together, no matter
how hard or devastating the impact we experience .
Take special note the verse does
not say some things, a few things, or one thing; it says ALL things hold
together in Him.
ALL THINGS.
Comforting words in distressing
times.
Occasionally when I write a post, I sense that it is maybe even for one person. I had that sense when I wrote this piece. If that's you today, know God has you in the palm of his hand.
Occasionally when I write a post, I sense that it is maybe even for one person. I had that sense when I wrote this piece. If that's you today, know God has you in the palm of his hand.