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Just Row
It’s one thing to suffer for doing wrong. Something else entirely to suffer for doing right. But it happens. And when the storm bursts, it washes away the naïve assumption that if I do what is right, I will never suffer.
Just ask the faithful couple whose crib is empty. Just ask the business person whose honest work was rewarded with runaway inflation. Just ask the student who took a stand for the truth and got mocked.
And like the disciples in the boat, they wonder, “Why the storm, and where is Jesus?” (John 6:19)
It’s bad enough to be in the storm, but to be in the storm alone? So where does that leave us? It’s simple. We do what the disciples did. We row the boat. Oh there are moments of glamour, days of celebration. But we also have our share of baloney sandwiches. And to have the first we must endure the second. We row the boat.
“God will always give what is right to his people who cry to him night and day, and he will not be slow to answer them.” (Luke 18:7)
From A Gentle Thunder
