How to Have Peace When Life is Hard

🌱“What’s the worse that can happen?” Today answers that question for me.

🌱Out of every holiday, birthday, anniversary, and planned festivity, Easter is my favorite. Not just because it sums up the crux of my faith in a publically celebrated way, but because it holds the reason as to why I don’t need to be anxious about anything in life, and why I am able to have peace through hard things.

🌱How? Because when I ask myself, “What’s the worse that can happen?” the two answers that present themselves are ‘death’ or ‘lack of hope in living.’ In every scenario of broken bodies, broken hearts, broken minds, and broken expectations, the worse that could happen is either a life extinguished, or prolonged life with only pain in sight.

🌱BUT, when the gospel is applied, every brokenness is countered by the promise of eternal life and unending hope, thus granting life with unparalleled peace. At the cross death was conquered, and we can have unwavering confidence that every good promise is an unequivocal YES and AMEN in Jesus.

🌱The worse that can happen is that I might trade in my broken shell for a glorified body. And until then, the worse that could happen is that I’m given the opportunity to use this broken shell to proclaim Christ.

🌱In light of Easter’s victory I can trade every anxious thought for life and hope and peace. And that is why today is my favorite.