As you think of and pray for the North Texas tornado victims of last night, do you consider how you would handle such devastation? For most, it was just physical lost coupled with memories. Would you just be grateful that your life was the only thing spared? Is that enough to you?
All that we have is God's first. We are given the responsibility to care for what we have been allotted in this life but that doesn't make it more of ours than God's. If something is taken from us, there is a purpose to it even when we don't understand why. Is your trust in God thru all things infallible? Will you praise Him in the hurt as well as in the joy?
Life is a balance of gives and takes but do you say 'blessed be His name' in all of it? 'When all the world should be as it should be' and 'when the darkness closes in', what will your heart choose to say both? Isaiah 26;3 ''You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.''