Sad Day

There is simply too much pain in this world.

I'm just in shock with the news of the tragic death of a young man (19) in my church. It's all over the local news. I know his parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and it just RIPS me up. Three years ago, this same young man's 2 yr old nephew tragically died from a drowning accident. And we all ask ourselves (and the Lord), hasn't this family been through enough already?

A few weeks ago, the 38 year old son of another family in our church died in a tragic car accident...there's the Japan nightmare, the unrest in Libya and Syria...the list goes on... Too much, I say. Too much.

I'm so very sad today.

This Heidelberg Catechism question/answer keeps rolling through my head today (emphasis mine)

Q. 1. What is your only comfort, in life and in death?

A. That I belong--body and soul, in life and in death--not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.