Friday! Proverbs!
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.
Proverbs 14:13 NIV
Sometimes we can be genuinely enjoying the moment but there's a deep ache in our hearts...a loss or grief, an anxiety or hurt, maybe an addiction or sin we're struggling with...somehow in a few short words this ancient proverbs sums up us modern people...
And the second part speaks to the reality of this life...rejoicing...things are looking great, a win, a promotion, a milestone, something we've been longing for, working for, goes well...and then it goes wrong.
People get ill, tradgedies happen, businesses fail...there's a long list.
This proverb speaks to the reality of today, but we know that the laughter and the rejoicing are glimpses of what is to come, that one day all will be made new, that the losses, hurts, grief, disappointments, will all be undone...
#hope
#onedayallwillbemadenew
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he looks at p
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