What a summer it has been in our world.
in this world
Planes have fallen from the skies.
you will have
Belongings and bodies of fallen aircraft pillaged.
tribulation
Governments have fallen.
but
Countries taken over.
take heart
Bombs dropped upon cities.
I
People buried under their homes, rocked by an earthquake.
have
The right to exist of one group threatened by another.
overcome
A deadly viral disease epidemic.
the
Christians in a town taken over by terrorists are told to “leave, convert or die”.
world.
God, we trust that you have overcome the world, but we are … human. We cannot see the big picture of life and of the events in our world … we see only today, and today looks ominous, scary, hopeless. God, please be with the sick, the homeless, those who mourn, those who are hungry and thirsty, those who are threatened, those who are being forced to choose their love for you over their very life. Lord, help our faith that you have overcome the world to increase.
