In January 2017 tornados struck Mississippi and Georgia. Within months, East Texas was blasted with a series of violent storms.
Trees were downed and homes damaged. Months later, many building were exposed to the weather, still unrepaired.
In May of the same year, floods decimated portions of the St. Louis metro area, as the Meramec and Mississippi Rivers reached record highs in some locations. Several fatalities resulted.
The difficulties we face often seem purposeless. One house is destroyed, and another is unscathed. One person is killed, and another lives. We search for explanations for the events that bash us about.
Our answer is to place our faith in God. 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 looks to our world from God’s point of view:
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’ ”
Meaning in life flows from the Father to those who trust in him. The world will know only confusion. The disasters that rampage around us will seem arbitrary and senseless. In God, we will find purpose in the disasters that batter our plans into nothingness.
When we apply this principle spiritually, we can understand why nonbelievers scoff at the message of Christ. Mankind may be brilliant, but God’s superiority shatters humanity’s supremacy into wasted shards. What people reason out with the greatest of care, God casts aside as wasteful thinking.
Christ’s redemption, offered through the blood he shed on the cross, is the only way to heaven. It’s the only way to make sense out of this life.
In Jesus, we find meaning in every single day.
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