Reach Out To God
Turn us again to yourself, O God Almighty. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. -- Psalm 80:7 (NLT)
Who could imagine that someone would survive not one catastrophic tornado, but two? Yet some students did just that. They’d been students at Enterprise High School when a tornado destroyed it and took the lives of eight students. Now they faced the rubble of yet another tornado, in yet another town.
One student noted that good can come from bad. He mentioned a bible study, started shortly after the Enterprise tornado, that continues on. A lasting legacy of what’s important. Good coming from bad.
A woman I met a few weeks ago is a new Christian. She’d been her grandfather’s caretaker in the months before his death. It made her start wondering and questioning. What comes after death? What does it all mean? Surely there is more than what we see right before us.
Tragedy and illness draw us closer to God. We grasp the strength of a rock that never waivers, never bends, never leaves us unattended. We seek what we do not see and long to be filled with His Presence. There is something more than our day-to-day lives. And we want it.
Turn us toward you, O God. Shine down on us and let us see your face. God you and you alone can save us. Teach us. Guide us. Restore us. Use this great tragedy so that we might know you more fully and see you more clearly. We need you God. Fill our emptiness, remove our sadness, and grant us your Presence in this day and those to come.
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