When I was a lot younger, I was given to having a rather dramatic reaction to things that happened. A good way of expressing that is my given moods when my football team won or lost. If my team won, I would be so buoyant you would not be able to stop me walking on a high for hours.
If my team lost, I would be inconsolable. So morose. Such a misery. So forlorn. It was the worst thing in the world. I would sometimes mope to my Mum that they ruined everything. My Mum was very understanding, even though she didn’t really follow football at all and didn’t care that much about the game. She understood my given passions and wouldn’t just brush them off as irrelevant. She would help channel my mind to other things that would help put things in perspective.
There were incidents that happened later on in my life that made some significant negative impacts on my life. I remember sometimes just wanting to keep my head down and ignore life forever because everything seemed to be ruined. Family life, work life, church life all of life – it’s ruined.
It took someone reminding me to read about what took place on Calvary and the subsequent good news of the rule of Jesus in all things. Whatever ruined things before – and that is a lot more than a sports result – was brought to peace by the Prince of Peace. Often it can certainly feel as though everything is ruined. Perhaps there might not seem to be anything worth living for. Yet because of this Prince of Peace in whom all things were created and for whom all things are created – there is hope. Not everything is ruined at all.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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