I’m sure you’ve had those moments in your life when everything is going great, but then out of nowhere the tides turn. It’s crazy how one instant you can be on top of the world, and then the next you’re plunged into the depths.

It can happen with the littlest things, an offhand comment from a friend or a co-worker can blindside you and change everything. Suddenly your day goes from good to bad. A tiny mistake you make can have the affect of a snow ball barreling down hill and just get bigger and bigger with every passing moment. Maybe one minute you’re enjoying a lovely family dinner but the next you’re overwhelmed by sadness thinking about the one who isn’t there anymore. Or perhaps it’s that subtle temptation that draws you in and completely derails all the progress you had made.

And those are just the little things! That’s not even mentioning the big things that can transpire in life that have the same impact but to the nth degree. A diagnosis. An accident. A death. The loss of a job. The betrayal of trust.

In the worst of these moments it can be easy to wonder, “Where are you God?” “How long will this go on?”

And yet during this season of Advent we are reminded of a great promise. The promise that God remains faithful in his covenant to us no matter what. That’s right: No. Matter. What.

What better news is there for us to hear? What more could we possible need?

This Sunday we’ll continue Our Great Big Family Story and pick up where we left off in the lineage of Jesus with King David and the line of his successors to the throne. No story more easily exemplifies the sudden shift that can happen in a storyline than this one. Yet, this story is also a story of incredible, unconditional, miraculous faithfulness on the part of God in spite of all that goes wrong.

“Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.” (2 Samuel 7:16)

See you Sunday,
Pastor Derek