{"id":3863,"date":"2025-04-25T06:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:13:15","slug":"hope-in-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/hope-in-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Friday, April 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope in Chaos\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.<strong> Psalm 46:7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the earth shakes, when storms rage, when disasters strike \u2014 the natural response is fear. We run for cover. We panic. We brace ourselves for impact. And yet, in the middle of it all, Psalm 46 offers a surprising and powerful call:<\/p>\n<p>Be still.<\/p>\n<p>Know that I am God.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 46:10, AMP<\/p>\n<p>How can we be still when everything around us feels like it\u2019s falling apart? Because even when the world feels unstable \u2014 God is not. Even when our circumstances are chaotic \u2014 God is in control.<\/p>\n<p>The Psalmist isn&#8217;t asking us to ignore our fear \u2014 he&#8217;s calling us to lift our eyes higher. Life our eyes to the hills to remember who is with us: \u201cThe Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hope in chaos isn\u2019t wishful thinking \u2014 it\u2019s divine perspective. It\u2019s choosing to trust that even when everything we see says, \u201cThere\u2019s no way out,\u201d God is already working on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p>He sees. He knows. He is near.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of letting worry take over, we\u2019re invited to lean into His presence \u2014to allow God to display His power and peace in the middle of our storm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Lord, when fear creeps in, remind me that You are my refuge. Even when everything around me is uncertain, You are my steady place. Teach me to be still \u2014 not because everything is calm, <\/em><em>but because I trust the One who holds all things together. You are my peace, my shelter, my strength. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 25 Hope in Chaos\u00a0\u00a0 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Psalm 46:7 When the earth shakes, when storms rage, when disasters strike \u2014 the natural response is fear. We run for cover. We panic. We brace ourselves for impact. And yet, in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}