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Doing OK?
By Scott Harrup | October 1, 2008
“Doing OK?” a friend asked today as we took the elevator back to our offices.
“Not really,” I said.
“Well, that’s honest,” she replied with a considerate smile.
We both knew what we were talking about — the Evangel’s loss of Art Director Matt Key, a friend to many. Matt will be remembered on our Web site and in the November 23 issue of the magazine.
Most of the time, I’m as prone as the next person to glibly offer a “Fine, thanks” when someone asks how I’m doing. But there are those other moments.
Moments when life feels like a suppressed ache beneath the unrelenting demands of the day. I cannot begin to imagine how Matt’s family feels.
But the wonderful reality of the life of faith is the promise of God’s empathy. Not just sympathy, but a divine ability to feel my pain with me. I believe that’s one of the driving motivations for the Incarnation. Jesus could feel the pain of humanity, completely identifying himself with that pain even while understanding its eternal outcome in ways only God can.
He was “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3, NIV).
On the days when I’m not feeling OK, and when you’re not feeling OK, there is Someone each of us can turn to who understands us like no other.
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