Flint Smith is a guy from my old lifegroup at First West in West Monroe. As I type this message, he and his parents are making a long trek to Houston from West Monroe to see his now-dead brother. They started while he was still alive, hoping to make it there before he passed. They didn't.
I ask that you pray for comfort and safety as they travel. It must be emotionally exhausting to have to make so far of a drive knowing something horrible is waiting for you on the other end of it. Flint is a strong man with a heart for the LORD like none other. He is going to need a lot of support now. Please send it to him through your prayers.
When I started this blog, I promised that I wouldn't sugar coat, that I would always be open and honest about what I believed and about what the Bible says. And the Bible says that regardless of circumstances, God is good. Even when He doesn't give us the answer we want, God is good.
And I believe that, I really do. All of the teaching I've had, all of the men I have sat under and learned from....they all have ingrained that into my soul, to the point that even in the wildest of rages I cannot help but admit that God is good.
I know you are good. Every piece of my heart that now breaks for my brother Flint knows that. And in this time of sorrow for him, you are the only sure thing that he has. So, please, be there for him. He's making a journey now that a weaker man could not do. Go with him, hold him like a father holds his child, and speak to him the words that will give him strength for the days ahead. Carry him, as you have carried others before. Give him the grace he needs to endure this storm.
And where our futile minds cannot make sense of these things that you have allowed to happen, give us the faith to trust in what we cannot understand.
Brothers and sisters, what prayers you may utter tonight, let them speak of Flint Smith and his family. This titan of faith now walks on shaken ground, and more than anything he needs his God and his spiritual family. God is with him already. Let us be with him, too.
Keep Soaring,
B
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