Forever

Psalm 146:5-10

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,

the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

So much power in such a few, simple lines of scripture.

Last night, as I gathered with the youth of our church, a game of "ask the preacher Bible questions," also known as "stump the chump" broke out.

Pretty quickly, the discussion took a familiar turn.

"What about the big bang?"

"What about dinosaurs?"

"Can God really know everybody and everything?"

"Where do we really go when we die?"

"Where does the Bible come from?"

Really, all of those questions come from the same basic place..."how do I accept things that I don't understand?"

All of us would love to know the "answers" to the big questions of life.

But the best answer we'll ever have is to be found in the few lines of scripture we read here today.

That's the only answer there really is...

Our hope is in the Lord: "the maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them. The Lord, who remains faithful forever."

How could a little baby born 2,000 years ago, surrounded by animals in a livestock shed and laid in a feed trough really be the savior of the world?

Because the maker of that world loves us so much...and thankfully works in mysterious ways.

Prayer: Thank you, Father, for your love that does not end. You are faithful forever, and in ways beyond our imaginations. Increase our faith, that we might accept the gift of your love.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

Tomorrow's Scripture: Isaiah 35:1-5