I did not write this: but I can learn from it.
the source is Ransomed Heart Ministries who still includes me in the daily reading list even tho I have never sent them a dime.
I used to spend much time griping that things just weren't right, why cant I trust anyone to do the right thing to be the bigger man. why because we are fallen all of us.
How do I assimilate this and not get depressed? because there is hope, depressed is where the broken world lies. hope lies in my moments of prayer, worship, and trusting God.
Things are not what they were meant to be. East of Eden, we have kept moving east and come all the way ’round, finding the garden utterly lost and cruelly unrecognizable. We were all born into this world. We came in gasping for air, and we are gasping still. It’s a tough place to make a living, a hard place to make a life. Fire and ice. Beauty and terror. Pain and healing. Intertwined.
The good news is that Life wins out. Life has already won out. Love has won out. But the battlefield remains where we find ourselves, and the setting of the battle is a world that fiercely hates women. God loves women. Jesus loves women. The Enemy, the Devil, has women in his crosshairs.
Not a cheery thought but one necessary to face. Your life’s journey runs through unfriendly terrain. You knew this already. The smoke from the heavenly engagement going on all around us affects our watery eyes and our labored breathing like smog. With mortars flying, aimed at our heart, we need to name it. So much of the sorrow in our lives finds its roots in misogyny.
