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Sunday... It's all falling apart...


Sunday...  Do you feel as you wake up this morning, that everything is falling apart? I'm sure a lot of people would agree with you. The psalmist writer of Psalm 82 seems to feel the same way.   

Psalm 82:5b (MSG) says, "And now everything's falling apart, the worlds coming unglued." As you view it from one perspective that may be a true assessment, but is it really true?

Now I don't know what you are going through, I don't. Life is really rough for so many of you. It is hard to understand what is happening, isn't it?

Have you ever looked at the back side of a needlepoint picture? It is a mess. Have you ever gone into a room that is being painted? It is a mess! Have you ever looked at a fun loving child who has just been out playing in a mud puddle? They are a mess.

But if you turn the needlepoint over to the front you see the finished product of an artist.  If you come back after the painter has finished painting and the decorator has put pictures up and furniture in place, it is beautiful. If you look at the child after mom has cleaned them up and put clean clothes on them you still see a work in progress but they look so much better, don't they? And if they are your grandchild, you think they look great.  

Now the Psalmist writer of Psalm 82 isn't done. He finishes the Psalm by saying, "You've got the whole world in your hands." God, you know what you're doing. You are not finished. This old world is a work in progress. You have a plan. It seems that we are looking at the back side of the needlepoint, we are looking at the room before it is finished, we are looking at the negative of what is happening and not putting our trust in the artist, in God who has a plan, who has a purpose and who has our best interest at heart.

As the song writer wrote, "He's got the whole world in his hands." May that fact keep going through your mind as you live this day. Yes, yes #todaysbeginning  


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