Mediations from Auschwitz 2 Birkenau on God in control - J Stewart Gillespie from Graceinchrist.org

Tears are precious and powerful, sometimes our eyes are the most open when they are the firmly clouded by tears! It is the tears of God's people on Revelation chapter 7 that give them a profound insight and appreciation of Gods sovereign power and wisdom, worked out through history and in our lives personally. A message of hope preached on the banks of Loch Garry and on the foothills of Meall Na Leitreach.

Yours by God's Grace in Christ

Dr J Stewart Gillespie

Revelation chapter 5 is the detonator for global catastrophe and judgment with all of the war, suffering, sorrow and pain that involves. Such an outpouring if God's wrath could only happen when humanity is in active rebellion against their creator. To see all of the pain and sorrow merely as a passive consequence of human disobedience is to miss the bigger picture and deeper mystery of the book of Revelation. God is bigger than we imagine and more in control than we could ever anticipate. Whilst God pours out His judgement upon a world that rejects Him, that crucified His Son and persecuted His people, in all of that sorrow and suffering God is working out His own purpose. His goal is an end to the corruption and mess of a fallen world and the ushering in of a new heaven and new earth. Grief is but the stepping stone to Glory. In the storm there is a peace to be found in the Christ who walks on the waves, at the grave there is a glory to be seen in the hope of resurrection through the grief of the present moment. Look for the hand of God, the purpose of the problem and the plan of an all powerful and sovereign God in every experience of life. 

Yours by Grace in Christ 

Dr J Stewart Gillespie