God's Message for Each Day
Copyright © 2004 by Eugene H. Peterson.

GOD’S WILL

Blessed be GOD, my mountain. . . .
He’s the bedrock on which I stand.
PSALM 144:1, THE MESSAGE

I don’t know one thing about the future. I don’t know what the next hour will hold. There may be sickness, accident, personal or world catastrophe. Before this day is over I may have to deal with death, pain, loss, rejection. I don’t know what the future holds for me, for those I love, for my nation, for this world. Still, despite my ignorance and surrounded by tinny optimists and cowardly pessimists, I say that God will accomplish his will, and I cheerfully persist in living in the hope that nothing will separate me from Christ’s love.

A LONG OBEDIENCE