If the Worst "What If's" Should Happen

What if - covid is never wiped out and remains a threat to the world?  What if the covid vaccine proves to be a dangerous biological weapon?  What if - America and the entire world collapse economically and fall to the godless, tyrannical rule of communism?  What if - we lose all our freedoms and are no longer able to worship or speak freely?  What if - America's current woke culture succeeds in creating a society totally void of objective truth and full of moral perversity and depravity? 

On a more personal level, do you ever imagine “what if—?” What if things went horribly wrong? What if you were seriously ill and were not going to get better? What if something happened to your home or to your family? Because of sin, all kinds of bad things can happen in our world. Is there anything that is big enough to comfort us if the worst “what if’s” should happen?

The psalmist imagined “what if” in Psalm 46. He imagined: what if the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the sea? The psalmist comforted himself by remembering that, even then, God would still be our refuge, the place where we can go to be safe. God would still be our strength, and our “very present help,” even in the greatest trouble.

We aren’t ready to face life unafraid and live it fully until we know we have something big enough to comfort us in any “what if.” 

Adapted Excerpt From: Starr Meade. “Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds.”