Stop and think

So some pretty big things are happening at church at the moment. And it's all hitting me now at work, actually it started sinking in when I woke up. Not that I'm personally affected per se, but it's still a huge thing. It mostly just hurts, I hurt for those who are our youth, who may just have no idea of how to come to terms with the whole deal. For those who were close ... or thought they were close ... that element of trust has been totally shattered. I hurt for those who are in a situation of being around those who do not attend church and now face questions and comments etc.

BUT

our faith, our hope and our trust is in the CREATOR ... not his created - although we honour everyone, it is ultimately GOD who will guide us through and heal the wounds.

Verses from Isaiah Chap 53:
NLT
V4-6 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

MSG
V4-6 But the fact is, it was our pains he carried — our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed.We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way.And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him.