Today’s post is unplanned and not truly a Take Me Back. I had a post planned but today it just doesn’t seem fitting in light of the horrific disaster that happened in Moore, OK yesterday. You see, I am an Okie. Born and raised. I love that state and the people in it. It is home.
Yesterday, a mile wide tornado ripped through a city that I drive through every time I visit my friends and family in Oklahoma. It is just north of where I went to college and just south of where my grandparents live. It is not a foreign city you see on the news but a place very close to my heart. As I watched the news this morning and looked at the rising death count as well as the jaw-dropping damage, tears fell from my eyes in sorrow. In times like these of heart-wrenching devastation, my heart inevitable turns to the promise that preserves life. The hope of something greater. An eternal glory untainted by the devastation of this world. The hope that is in the promise of a Savior. Some may find it confusing that I would be able to trust in God in a time like this but truly, it is my trust in God that gives understanding in such tragedy as this. Without the hope of that promise, we are left with nothing BUT devastation. With His promise, we have the anticipation of an eternal home that will be worth ALL the pain and sorrow.
As Psalm 27:13-14 says, “I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.”
Let us not despair in our desperation and loss but look to the Lord as we wait in expectation of His promise for we WILL see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Let us all pray diligently for the lives affected in Moore, OK today and the days to come as they pick up the pieces and mourn the lives of those lost.
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