Who, Who, Who?

This week has been a real week of missing Melbourne, of feeling the pull of being out of the lives of people I care about, of longing and praying for family. It has also been a week of watching different people I care about struggled with all kinds of grief and suffering. Its been a week of asking lots of questions to God.

But its also been a week where nothing has felt academic. Where the simple truths of doctrine have come alive: God is a God who does not change, who can't be manipulated by man, that humans very humanity is wrapped up in the God who created them in his image. Where sermons have been real and raw: That God's sovereignty is a blessing because who else would I want to control my life, that we have assurance in Christ, that familiarity with what God is like he should transform our lives. It is a week where Church history has inspired and challenged, where questions have been solved about how best to understand God's word, and where Greek has felt like unwrapping a present rather than solving an equation.

It is a week where questions of why, why, why have been turned on their head. Because its not why, why, why- those questions are not answered until heaven. But it is a question of who, who, who and the answer is Jesus.

And it is a week where I have once again concluded that I have the best husband in the whole-wide-world. A husband who comforts and cares and loves and supports. But most importantly- a husband who always turns my head back to the cross and saviour. When I look at all the uncertainty of life and say: "I'm not strong enough" his answer is not "Yes you are", but "None of us are, but God is".

"The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,
your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.
For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD ?
Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?
In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared;
he is more awesome than all who surround him.
O LORD God Almighty, who is like you?
You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you.
You rule over the surging sea;
when its waves mount up, you still them."
Psalm 89:5-9