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The World We Live In
Today I am sitting in my own office, at my own desk, in my own home. Over my desk is a large pen and ink engraving of a graphic panoramic view of the battlefield after the battle of Waterloo. In the foreground, the two generals, Wellington and Blucher, are shaking hands while the dead and dying lie sprawled as far as the eye can see.
It reminds me of the world we live in. Sorrow, pain, tears, and death are all around us, and even for the believer we read, “In the world ye shall have tribulation…There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man” (John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 10:13). We don’t understand why the Lord allows many of the trials and sorrows we pass through. But be assured there is always a purpose of blessing, a joy in Himself through it all, and the knowledge that He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:11). With this assurance we can “endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 2:3). We won’t be done with the battles and sorrows of life until we are home in Heaven with the Lord Jesus. In the meantime, we can fully trust our Captain, the Lord Himself.
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