Berri Barmera Lutheran Church

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Join us this Easter 🙂

14/02/2022

❤ Happy Valentines Day ❤

The challenge for the vows is to fall in love with the stranger to whom you find yourself married.

03/05/2021

01/05/2021

Come along and see what Messy Church is all about this afternoon, 😊

See the details for our next Messy Church event here. We hope to see you there!

19/04/2021

Register now for the July school holidays!

13/04/2021

Do you ever find yourself tripping over past painful events? Maybe a traumatic experience like divorce, a sudden loss or a friend’s betrayal has left you in a jumbled mess. Or maybe the “smaller” trials of life have combined into one big ball of hurt bouncing around in your heart.

Whatever the reason, you might find yourself hung up on the age-old question of “Why?” It’s one of the earliest questions we learn to ask, and it remains on our lips as difficult circumstances roll into our lives. We may pray and read our Bibles, but that nagging question has a potent way of keeping us stuck and hijacking our joy. Before long, enemy-fueled doubts begin assaulting the space between our ears:

I wonder if God has forgotten about me.

Maybe He’s abandoned me altogether.

His good plans must be for someone else, not me.

2 Corinthians 4:16-17 was written by Paul after he suffered multiple beatings, imprisonments and an intrusive “thorn in the flesh” that God never removed (2 Corinthians 12:7, CSB). Yet unlike my why-riddled prayer journals, Paul wrote these extraordinary words:

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all”

Paul grasped the critical truth that, on this earth, we see only part of the story, and through our tangled web of troubles, God works to accomplish His unseen, eternal purposes. Paul understood that God would weave the “Why?” moments into something beautiful and far more valuable than the temporary, earthly comfort we often crave.

We can walk in hope, knowing that God’s strength renews us each day. And in His strength, we get to decide that our “Why?” moments will no longer keep us stuck or steal our joy. In faith, we can place our pain into His capable hands – for we serve a God who turns our misery into a masterpiece.

-Meredith Houston Carr

Where do you turn to find truth in a season full of deep hurt?