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Very often I think, gosh we live in a screwed up world. It seems sometimes like the task is too great. There is so much pain, sorrow, and need. I sometimes really struggle with finding God in all of it. I mean lets face it. Starving children, sickness from pollution, and the greed are not exactly images that bring glory to God. But recently I ran across an excerpt from a message by Tony Campolo and I think it has some very powerful implications if we truly believe it. I think it clearly shows us that it is not perfect here. But there is a perfection coming. Now notice I did not say, there is a perfection we are “going to some day”. THERE IS A PERFECTION COMING! Today we may live in a screwed up world but our great hope is that one day Jesus will come again. Jesus will comfort those who mourn, and bind up the broken hearted. This is the day we look forward to. Here is the excerpt.

It’s Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’. It was Friday, and my Jesus is dead on a tree. But that’s Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’. Friday, Mary’s crying her eyes out, the disciples are running in every direction like sheep without a shepherd. But that’s Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’. Friday, some are looking at the world and saying, “As things have been, so they shall be. You can’t change nothing in this world! You can’t change nothing in this world!” But they didn’t know that it was only Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’. Friday, them forces that oppress the poor and keep people down, them forces that destroy people, the forces in control now, them forces that are gonna rule, they don’t know it’s only Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’. Friday, people are saying, “Darkness is gonna rule the world, sadness is gonna be everywhere,” but they don’t know it’s only Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’. Even though this world is rotten, as it is right now, we know it’s only Friday. But Sunday’s a comin’.

It’s Friday and the world is a terrible, unjust place to live; over thirty-thousand children died last night because they had no food, those with no homes are just now leaving the shelters, the powers and principalities of this world are oppressing humanity, but it’s only Friday.

 Sunday is coming.