hard-hat living

As a basic rule of thumb, you can generally bank on the fact that when the Lord is at work, all hell is swiftly let loose.

As another rule of thumb, whenever all hell is let loose, it's targeted on the weakest, most vulnerable parts.

The devil's not daft. Mean, sure: ruthless, yes: and never afraid to hit below the belt.

But not daft. He goes for where we're weakest.

And there's been a fair lot of that these past few days in the lives of different people. A good deal of time has been taken up attending to consequent wounds.

It means, though, the Lord is at work!

It would be great to be able to simply sit back and enjoy watching Jesus at work in a comfortable, trouble-free way. But it doesn't ever work like that.

Enjoying the Lord means a 'hard-hat' life. The only 'flat-liners' you get are when churches are totally dead.