I wonder what it was like to live in the 1800s.  The ideas and inventions of that time were countless and changed the way Americans lived until the dawn of the current age of technology. It’s fun to think of how things might have been during Mark Twain’s lifetime.  An easier, carefree existence where you could lay on a raft in the middle of the river and contemplate the clouds as you floated along, but was it?

Even Mark Twain complained of the lack of action in Congress and the foolishness of any who entered the political arena.  I wonder how he would have reacted to our current political sideshow.  Maybe things don’t really change much.  We continue to have flaws, we achieve greatness through various processes, we love, we deceive, philander, cheat and lie.  We sin. We aren’t much different than the characters God tells us about in the Bible. He uses those examples of real-life situations to show us that we are all flawed, but we have One who will rescue us from all of the perils on this side of eternity. In spite of our sins – in spite of our wanderings – in spite of it all – God never changes. His love never fails.

Times of turmoil and anguish will live with us until we die, but we can rest in God’s promise of an eternal life of untarnished bliss when we reach heaven.

Revelation 21:4  “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”