Hurricanes

My heart and prayers go out to our friends in Houston, Texas tonight. Over 2 million people are without power. Lakewood Church (Joel Osteen) had to cancel all services today due to Hurricane Ike. Living Proof ministries (Beth Moore) is also in Houston. The city has asked that everyone stay in if at all possible until more of the damage is assessed.

Sometimes life feels like a hurricane doesn’t it? I read last night in I Corinthians 13 out of the Message bible, "We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing Him directly just as He knows us!" Especially during the challenges of life, the trials, the trouble that Jesus promised would come in John 16:33, things become foggy. Scripture says it’s like looking through a glass darkly. The New Living Translation says, "Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now." (vs. 12)

I love how the chapter ends. Verse 13, the last verse of I Corinthians 13 reminds us what's important during those times it seems we're living in a fog..."But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation (of seeing clearly as God sees): Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love."

Let's love today...like Jesus would.