The animal that can't be captured

When we feel life is easy, we're mistaken. It never really is.

We talk about stained glass heroes of scripture and their closeness to God, but in reality, they had more than their share of problems. It was not their closeness to God that anointed them to do things that were captured in the best-selling book of all time. No. It was their closeness to God that carried them through all the stuff that they went through. Stuff just like all of us.

I'm learning. I really am. There are people everywhere who want nothing more than to stop whatever small successes someone else might be having. I get it.

But the problem is God is a big God. God wants all of us to love each other.

And Jesus prayed in this manner on the last night of his life, "I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

He said he prays that all may be one. Oh, that it would be so.

But change, that animal that can't be captured, is tough for some folks.

I get it. I do.