LOVE
IN THE RUINS

Topics: Crisis; God’s Love; Goodness of God; Loss; Mysteries; Tragedy

References: Ecclesiastes 3:11; John 13:7

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. Our broken lives are not lost or useless. God’s love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out his wonderful plan of love.

—Eric Liddell, The Disciplines of the Christian Life (Ballantine, 1988)