Good fortune is a damnably unreliable thing to have to rely on. Lady Luck is a fickle mistress with a marked preference for the rich and powerful.

But if I can't rely on fortune, who or what can I rely on? Myself? My friends and family? We are all of us pretty small when the really big waves hit.

It's the ancient question. Where do you place your trust? Whose name do you call on?

The apostle Paul knew all about the unfairness of life. Yet he wrote,

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. So help me God.

Steve


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