Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, passed away Saturday night at the age of seventy-one.
The president stated: “It is with a heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”
Being elected leader of the free world does not insulate a person from our fallen world. For example, of our forty-five presidents, twenty-five have known the horrific pain of losing a child.
Nor does youth necessarily protect us from grief. According to a report last week from the CDC, one in four young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four considered suicide in the past month because of the pandemic. More than 40 percent of those surveyed—and more than half of those identified as essential workers—said they experienced a mental or behavioral health condition connected to the COVID-19 crisis.
Name your greatest challenge this morning. Did you choose it? Probably not. Can you choose how to respond to it? Absolutely.
Find your “Rock of Escape”
Psalm 54 is David’s prayer when he was betrayed to the king who sought his life (1 Samuel 23:19–24). He declares his peril: “Strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life” (Psalm 54:3). He did not choose this crisis, but it chose him.
However, David knows that his circumstances cannot change the character of his Lord: “Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life. He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them” (vv. 4–5).
As a result, he chooses to worship in the midst of his danger: “With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good” (v. 6). A…
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