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The past year has been devastating for so many. My heart aches for those who I know and those who I don’t who have experienced heartache and loss due to Covid-19, economic failure, relational dysfunction, and many other afflictions this world and its people were not created to endure.
This year the Lord has taught me to walk out onto the waters of grief and lament with Him. It is natural and good to mourn the affects of the fall as our Lord and Savior did Himself, and as God’s people were instructed to do throughout time.
Why is life so hard? Why such hurt and agony? Why such brokenness? As I ask myself these questions, I am reminded that this present world is a mere shadow of the beauty and harmony it was originally created to be. God created this world to bring order and beauty out of chaos.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” – Genesis 1:1-3
Humanity was created with honor, dignity, and the highest of callings. As partners and sons of the God of the universe, we were created to spread truth and justice, beauty, and love over the face of the earth.
“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” – Genesis 1:26-28
And yet, because we could not trust in our Father’s perfect plan this perfect peace was lost, and our high calling all but forgotten. Yet rather than scrap it all and start over, God chose to enter our pain and take our shame upon Himself.
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace [shalom] was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. ~ Isaiah 53:5
And so, as followers and partners with the true King, we also take on the suffering of this world. We endure trouble, hand in hand with our Savior. We weep with those who weep. We carry the burdens of our brothers. We lament and confess the sins of our countrymen. We take up the cross with Jesus our brother. But as we step by faith into this abyss of pain, of which we cannot see the bottom, we experience oneness and comfort with He Who went there first.
“For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.” - 2 Corinthians 1:5
And as we abide with our Savior in this hurt, we are reminded daily of the light that is dawning, of the hope for ultimate restoration that our Creator God promises.
“For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay.” – Hebrews 10:36-37
"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying." – Isaiah 65:17-19
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