Good Friday: hope when all seems lost

Many of you talk to me outside of Facebook or the blog and I get a ton of questions about how I can be hopeful when surrounded by what seems to be just one setback after another. Today is the day when we traditionally remember Christ’s death in the cross. As my friend David Busic used to say, Good Friday was not the end of Jesus’ story, Resurrection Sunday was coming. Friends, family, and followers that saw him die on that cross, no doubt, had lost hope. They had an idea of how things were going to go and now Jesus was dead. They saw no future because they were viewing the situation by only what they could see. Thankfully we have a God that is infinitely bigger that we are. His death was not the end, it was actually the beginning. We must learn to view our situations not through our own eyes but through bigger enteral eyes. My favorite verse I that learned way back as a Pathfinder in Caravans says “Trust in The Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding”. When our children are babies they cry when they have a need and as parents we show up to feed, change, or comfort them. They have faith we will make everything better. When this cycle is repeated over and over again that child knows their parents will take care of them. They trust us and instinctively run to us when they fall and are hurting. They know we will provide whatever they need and will make everything alright. This is how it works with our Heavenly Father too. God specializes in what looks like impossible and hopeless situations to us. I have faith in Him, know He will take care of me, and I trust in his timing.