There Will Be A Day

When natural disasters destroy an entire community or when divorce breaks up a family or when a disease strikes someone that you love and care about, it's often difficult to feel that we serve a God who is great. Even though we learned earlier that the curse of our sin causes tragedies like these to occur, when the truth becomes personal we begin to forget it, and assume that God is responsible or negligent. However, there is good news that rises from the ashes of a shattered world, God promises that there will come a day when those who have chosen to live for Him will be in a place with no more suffering or pain. On Sunday morning, the band performed an uplifting song (There Will Be A Day by Jeremy Camp) that celebrated this day, and was written by a man who understood suffering.

Jeremy Camp is a Christian singer-songwriter who most might consider, based on his positive songs, someone who has lived a privileged life. However, the truth is that when Camp was twenty-three he lost his young wife to ovarian cancer, they had only been married less than six months. Although this might be reason for many to discard God as either non-existent or cruel, Jeremy Camp pens a song which has been played on Christian radio for the past six years, called I Still Believe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJrflQ0Qwg). The song claims a faith that God is still faithful and great, despite the horrors of the young widower's reality. The kind of faith that could be responsible for both of the aforementioned songs mirrors that of the author of the majority of the New Testament of the Bible, Paul. In his letter to a church in Rome, Paul states:

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. -Romans 8:18

What both Paul and Jeremy Camp understand and what we often forget when we're in the midst of tragedy, is that the sufferings caused by the curse of sin do not even compare to the glory and joy which those of us who follow Christ will inherit when we're in heaven. This is the evidence that God is great and God is good, because even though He had to punish sin, He still took our punishment on Himself and created a way for us to return to Him. Because there will be a day when there is no more divorce, no more cancer, no more hurricanes, no more pain, no more ridicule, no more crime, no more reasons to be afraid, and no more death. God in his great love has made a way for us to be free of the curse of our sin, and we shall wait patiently for that day.


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