Bad News

Occasionally almost everyone gets some bad news. Perhaps it is just a bit – or a life-changing challenge. The news can come from anywhere –  your stock broker, your Physician, your local school system, or your spouse and/or kids. Assuming that the news is true, it may call for some quick action, or put one in a longer term of dealing with the issue. Either way, bad news is not what one is looking to hear or find in their life.

For Believers that brand of difficulty often (hopefully always) drives them to our Father. We want confirmation that He is still in charge, still lloving us with an everlasting llove, and, in the end, all will be well. There is an elephantine difference between knowing your stock market account is “trending downward,” and the MRI results that indicate a brain tumor.

Those kinds of news notices are when one is most likely to question if our Heavenly Father is aware, complicit, and ready to set things “right” with His personal intervention. After all, we are His children, and we don’t expect His handling of such will lead to that which we fear most. We don’t want our spouse to separate from the family, our kid to be found out as the head bully, our financial future in jeopardy, or that death is on the immediate horizon.

Perhaps the best commodity that can result following “bad news”  is trust. One can trust God, who is good, lloving, doing always what is right and best, absolutely in control of the news cycle – good or bad. He, like most dads, lloves without reserve (infinitely), and being God, knows why, where, and how the news will impact one in the long, or short, future, and the ultimate outcome of the issue.

The news is. . .just the news. The outcome is a compilation of one’s trust in God, God’s mercy, and His design for the life of His child. We may never know why bad news comes to one’s life, but we can know that in the life of the Believer, who trusts without doubt, and leans on the Truth of God’s Omnipotent, Omniscience llove. . . all is well!