Even If...

Even if you don’t..... I’m sitting in my car right now, all alone, in a parking lot. I need to go in and grab a few groceries, but MercyMe’s “Even If” is on and I can’t get out. This whole weekend was the story of “even if you don’t”. The fact is, as Pastor Lipsey so eloquently and yet so simply explained on Saturday night, sometimes the scales are unjustly tipped against us. Our kids at Royal Connection have had terribly unfair and unjust and horrible things happen to them, through no fault of their own. God can step in at any point and completely change any situation. Sometimes He does. But sometimes He doesn’t. Sometimes parents die in typhoons. Sometimes dads attack their daughters. Sometimes big brothers prey on younger siblings. Sometimes uncles sexually assault kids. Sometimes parents are drug and alcohol addicted and forget they even have kids. Sometimes CPS is called, sometimes DCS, sometimes the police, and sometimes nobody. But even if things don’t get “fixed”, He’s still there. Even if we are the ones messing everything up, He’s still there. Even if you feel alone, He’s still there. 


I was walking by the pond this weekend and I almost missed this bloom. It was almost lost in the middle of rocks and dirt and mulch and pebbles. But there it was, a beautiful bloom on a strong vine, thriving in a most unlikely place. That’s what God does for us. He gives us roots and strength and blooms, even in the most unlikely of places. Even if those places aren’t made beautiful, we still are. Even if.