You know that part of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader when all hope seems lost and Lucy magically hears a comforting whisper that she just knows is Aslan? He said, “Courage, dear heart.” And after last week, that’s exactly what I need to hear whispered over me.
Maybe you do too. Please be encouraged. God is on His throne. Undaunted, unworried, and in complete control. Everything is going to be okay. Or as another of my favorite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien, once said, “The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.” And that’s why they call it the good news.
So for anyone out there struggling to make sense of the world, anyone overcome with anger or oppressed with anxiety, I pray like the apostle Paul that your,
“hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:2-3).
Courage dear hearts!