“Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today!”

“Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today!”(Is.54:7-10).
The rainy season has descended with such torrents as if heaven has unleashed her fury upon the homeland. Farmers are exuberant as they hurry daily to the farms to cultivate subsistence crops. Meahwhile those who have not yet roofed their newly constructed sundry block houses pray that the rains should delay a bit.
Such is life. God is never going to please everybody at the same time. He has set the time for every occurence. If we follow his rhythm we can always be in harmony with his timing.
Have you ever come to that point where you think that you have come to the end of the road without yet arriving your destination? Have you gotten to that point where you start asking, “God where are you?”; that point when you begin to wonder whether Job’s wife was not right when she told Job, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”(Job1:9).
Pain and suffering can bring out the worst from the best of us. Philip Yancey in his book, “Where Is God When It hurts?” cites C.S. Lewis as having introduced the phrase, “pain, the megaphone of God.” Lewis says “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains…it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
God’s megaphone rouses a sleeping deaf world to wake up from slumber.
God does not intentionally abandon those he has covenanted with. He says, “For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you…So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again…my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you.”
The LORD has done as he promised in the person of his Son. He has shown us mercy. Whatever travails betide us now shall come to pass. All the vicissitudes that befall us now are simply God’s megaphone shouting on us to return to the Him and benefit from his covenant of peace.
My friend, be sure of this: If you return to the LORD your tomorrow will be better than today!
Prayer of the day and week: LORD thank you for the assurance of your unending love and compassion in Jesus Christ your son our Lord. Amen!
Welcome to a new working day and week! Have a blessed day and week! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.