Grace Extension - You'll Never Walk Alone

You’ll Never Walk Alone

When I was growing up, one of my favorite songs was entitled “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Remember?

“When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm is a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain
Thou your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on…walk on…with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone…you’ll never walk alone.”

Good song…good words! Aren’t you glad today that we Christians don’t have to walk through storms? Right? WRONG!!!

The truth is that we Christians walk through plenty of storms. In fact, Jesus promised us there would be storms. “In this world, you will have trouble” and “the world will hate you because of me”…those are his words. Oh, yes, the storms will be there.

Too often we give the gospel the appearance of the easy life...the happy life…where everything goes our way and every trial and tribulation is avoided because we have chosen to follow Christ. Our spokesmen to the world turn into spiritual car salesmen with good deals and cheap prices being the primary lures to make our commitment to God. We even get a “get out of hell free card”. Hard to turn down a deal like that!

Exactly where did we get this philosophy from? Not from Jesus. Those early disciples quickly found out there were storms and there was wind and there was darkness. There will be times in our Christian faith when we find ourselves in the middle of a storm with seemingly no one around us. But it is precisely at that time we are promised we will not be alone…Christ will be with us…and that is the blessing.

“In this world, you will have trouble…but fear not, I have overcome the world”. “And I will be with you always…even unto the ends of the earth”…those too were His words.

As Christians, we are only promised that Christ will be with us…and in that promise there is enough grace…enough love…and enough strength to persevere and overcome. In a world that doesn’t understand who we are and doesn’t care, Christ is with us. In the depths of our despair and loneliness, Christ is with us. In the darkness of the shadows, Christ is with us.

The storms will come, to be sure. They are already here. But hold your head up high and don’t be afraid of the dark. Christ is with you and you’ll never, ever walk alone. Thanks be to God.

In Christ,
Billy

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