The Rest of the Story
Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say on the Lord (Psalm 27:14) Paul Harvey’s radio program, “The Rest of the Story” featured him telling part of a happening, then breaking for a commercial, before coming back to finish what always turned out to be a surprise ending. So it often is in life. Circumstances that look disastrous at the time may have a far better ending than hoped for, especially when we are trusting God to work out the details. As Jesus hung dying on the cross, it must have seemed that the power clique of the day had succeeded in their unholy alliance against Him. His disciples, who have given up everything in order to follow Him, must have felt utterly defeated. His cry, “It is finished” (John 19:30), would have rung like a death toll in their hearts. Three days would pass before they understood that when He cried those words it was not in defeat, but in triumph; not surrender...