verawrites

This is an unusual way to launch 2015 but as I have said, I plan to write about whatever pops up each week and this struck me as important.  For one thing, Mario Cuomo was the governor of my home state, New York, and for another he is the kind of progressive that I aspire to be.

As the President said recently,

President Obama, in a statement Thursday night, called Mr. Cuomo “a determined champion of progressive values, and an unflinching voice for tolerance, inclusiveness, fairness, dignity, and opportunity.”

I do plan to discuss the concept of progressive ideals in a future post, but suffice it to say here I think the chief characteristic of people who call themselves progressives in a political vein currently is fairness.  As Governor Cuomo said in his famous 1984 Democratic Convention speech, as long as there is inequity, America’s story is not of a shining city…

As I’ve said in other posts, I do not believe that God causes trials. But He clearly does allow difficult times to come upon even those that are closest to Christ. (If you don’t believe this, please study the life of the Apostle Paul).

When you read the Old Testament, especially the book of Job, you’ll find that people of those times believed trials and tribulations only came upon the ungodly. Most of the book of Job is his so-called “friends” trying to figure out what Job did or didn’t do to deserve these horrible trials. Poor Job sits at their feet scraping his boils trying to defend himself against their baseless accusations.

Trials humble us and expose self-righteousness in others and in ourselves.

I’m thankful that I don’t have friends like Job. Today, when looking upon those going through difficult trials, the humbled believer will likely think,

From http://www.daveswordsofwisdom.com

What do you regret?

THE END