So for you following along with me for a while you’ll know that I had to take a break for a bit as I healed up from a injury to my wrist I had a couple months back playing tennis.  Well today I went to the doctor for a follow up appointment to find out that I’m going to need surgery.  This was a surprise as until today my comments from my doctor were highly favorable that surgery would be unnecessary.  The reality is that while this is extremely inconvenient to lose the use of my dominant hand for a month or two, and there are always risks associated with surgery / anesthesia, this is a very small matter compared to many people are dealing with.

I didn’t want to lose this opportunity however, to encourage you all in your faith, through my circumstance.  Here are the two things that I cling to whenever life throws me a curveball.  God is good, and He is sovereign.  I know the goodness of God from Romans 5:8, which tells me that while I was yet a sinner, Christ died for me.  While there was nothing good for me to offer God, God in His mercy humbled Himself, at great cost to Himself, and bore the wrath of God due my sin.  God is sovereign.  Even the hairs on my head have been numbered (Matt:10:30); God numbered the stars in the sky and knows each by their name (Psalm 174:4).

So it is that I can agree with the prophet Habakkuk, Habakkuk 3:17-19 – “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.  GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”

How can I be downtrodden when the God of my salvation reigns?  Our joy does not rest in this world, but in our inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven.  When everything else is counted as loss to know the glory of God in Jesus Christ, even my sufferings will be made subservient to glorify Him for my joy.  In that I will rejoice, and my hope is that you each feels the weight of that joy as well.

Grace be with you,
Adam