It's beautiful, the contrast between the dark and the light. Fluffy cumulo nimbus clouds, bright white against a sky blue backdrop, and right beside them, gray clouds carrying rain or snow depending on the temperature. Part of the landscape in sunlight, part in shadow. It is the contrast that makes them beautiful. Life is like that. Contrasts. One loved one dies, another is born. I have sent sympathy cards and baby congratulations on the same day.
In the common grace of God, the sun shines and the rain falls on the just and the unjust of the earth. And even now, despite storms, droughts and floods, every drop of water in the universe falls exactly where God intends it to. Yes, God is that sovereign. Someday, the curse will be lifted from man and the universe, yet I believe even then there will be contrasts, but not between good and evil, ease and suffering, life and death. It will be only those distinctions that God knows showcase beauty best.
Beyond the Curse, we'll one day see
the world, as it was meant to be
pure and fair and, at last, free.
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