God's power changes everything. It changes apparent tragedy into triumph. Things may seem quite bad and we may feel that, although God is good, we have somehow failed him and do not qualify for his mercy. We tend to get this way when things in our circumstances get bad. We rationalize how a good God can let us suffer and this is what we end up with. He is good, but not to me. I must have lost his favor somehow.
So now, deal with me as you please,
and command my life breath to be taken from me,
that I may go from the face of the earth into dust.
It is better for me to die than to live,
because I have heard insulting calumnies,
and I am overwhelmed with grief.
But what if God is still at work? What if we're giving up on him before he gives up on us?
At that very time,
the prayer of these two suppliants
was heard in the glorious presence of Almighty God.
So Raphael was sent to heal them both
It is God's way that the resurrection follows the cross. We tend to think to ourselves that if we have to face the cross we must not be loved. But it is not so. We need to hold on. We need to ask and keep asking. We need to pray constantly without losing heart even as the widow does with the unjust judge. When we do we find that all things work together for the good of those who love God. Perhaps not as quickly as we would like. But if we hold on to hope and cling to the one who loved us first we do discover that he is in fact the God of the living. The cross has a part to play. He insists it not be skipped. But it leads on to life eternal.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
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