No Rhyme

Sometimes there seems to be no rhyme or reason.
Sometimes there ses to be no right or wrong.
Sometimes it seems like justice is not served.
Sometimes it feels like the righteous suffer more than those who are not.
Sometimes life does not make sense.
Sometimes death does not make sense.
Sometimes there are no words.
Sometimes there are blank stares.
Sometimes there is head in the hands.
Sometimes there are tears dripping from your cheek.
Sometime there are wails of agonoy.
Sometimes he doesn’t come home.
Sometimes life doesn’t seem…fair.

But the Lord is the One Who gives.
The Lord is the One Who Takes away.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord!

And at the end of the day, we have fallen short.
This is how it will end for almost every last one of us.
We all take a last breath.
We all experience one final beat of the heart.
We all have one last synapse fire through our brain.
We are all returned to the ground.
We all know death all to well because it lives right next door.
And someday were moving into that house.

But death is not the end.
The One who took is from the dust and returned us to it will enact justice on all.
So don’t tell me that life is not fair because all die for our transgressions.

Life is better than fair because the One who took us from the dust became dust Himself.
He did not turn away from the Master plan.
He became our sin.
He bore all of the justice and wrath on Himself.
He returned to dust.
The dust could not hold Him down because what happened to Him was not fair.

He rose from the dust a second time.
If we trust in Him,
That He has everything in control,
That His death made us right with Him,
That through His resurrection we can live again-
Forever.

Because Death is Not the End.

One day you will slip fatefully into the dark.
It will be fair, righteous, and just…
…Even though it feels like anything but.

Today is the day of salvation.
Have you called upon the Name of the Lord?