One
night, this week, as NBC News was catching up
on the anniversary of a tornado
that destroyed homes in Joplin, Missouri,
I got caught up in a story about a young woman
named Bethany Lansaw.
Bethany and her husband had been married six years.
When
the tornado came ripping at their home,
she took cover in the bathtub
while her
husband threw his body over hers to shield her.
He died, loving her and saving
her.
What touched me in her story was that
she now finds comfort in the fact
that on the worst day of her life
she was loved and comforted.
This
struck a chord with me, as I was reminded of how God loves
us in much the same way. Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Isaiah tells of God saving His people because we are precious in His sight.
In Romans 8 we read . . .
What,
then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us,
who can be against
us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all –
how will He
not also, along with him graciously give us all things?
For I am
convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the
present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything
else in all creation will be able to separate us
from the love of God, that is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
On our
worst day, He still loves us and comforts us,
when we hide ourselves in Him.