We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
(Romans 8.28
NRSV)
See if
you recognize this scene written by an irritated journalist.
"Hurry as we may," he writes, "we are hemmed in by a surging
crowd in front and a dense throng of people pressing in from the
rear. One man digs his elbow into me, another a pole; one bangs
my head with a plant.....You can be considered foolish and
thoughtless....if you go out....without your will made." Sounds
like the typical Christmas shopping crowd, doesn't it? The same
writer later complained, "Here you may pay a big rent for a
miserable house. Everyone dresses above his means." Do these
sound like your problems and your frustrations? They are a
quotation from the Roman writer, Juvenal, who lived from A.D. 60
to 140, just after the time of Jesus. But he could have been
writing about our time and our town. Human nature, unfortunately,
is a constant. It changes very little. Humanity has a sinful
heart, but it is a heart that Christ can change.
Dear God, change my heart to one that is filled with your love. Amen.
Ron Newhouse
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