God in the Flood

I like to watch "Extreme Home Makeover," mainly because it feels like resurrection to me. It has too much glamour and cheese to be true resurrection, obviously, but it points in a good direction. Recently a Wesleyan Pastor in Kansas was picked by EMH to receive a new home because of the medical conditions of his daughter. After the flooding in Kansas, however, the pastor turned down the opportunity because of the devastation that surrounded him: He did not want to be elevated when all around him were people suffering. (Read the article here.)

This reminded me of the gospel that also has in it a cross. The gospel is not that God provides new homes for all his people (or even for some of his people), but that God wades through the flood, too. This believer shows that God goes through it with those who suffer.