The Other Shoe

Apprehensions about the future can haunt us like monstrous shadows in the night, but turn on the light and we realize it was only a shirt hanging over the clothing chair. We give life to our creations of fear but that does not make them real. True, the future may bring grim tidings our way, but even if so, we will find ourselves supported in that hour by the incomprehensible peace and presence of God. And when all the scary things our worldly future has in store for us are gone and done, the other shoe will drop: a gospel shoe shod with tidings of joy which will hasten us into an eternity of transcendent well-being and heavenly delight with the Lord Jesus, who went through the real horrors for us on the cross.