Circumstances may be contrary, but God is constant.

· That a lion is wounded does not negate its identity. That a child of God is in trouble does not remove his value as nobility. I watched a preacher paint an example that drove the lesson home. He asked for a crisp 100-dollar note. Upon receipt, he crumbled the same, squished it to almost an irrecognisable state and asked the congregation if anybody wanted the note. Many wanted the note. He wondered why, and someone retorted, “It may be ugly and squished, but the value remains”. It is the same with us as God’s children, Life may have broken and battered us. It does not change the value and identity we have as God’s children.