Comedy or Tragedy

I'm a little behind--six days after the sermon.  Nonetheless the question remains, Are we living in a comedy or a tragedy?  At times it feels like a tragedy; nothing seems to work right: children rebel, the economy contracts, hatred abounds, conflicts grow.  Is there any hope?  Is what we see all there is?  Do you remember the movie "Stranger than Fiction"?  Will Ferrell starred a character whose life was being written by a novelist.  Will Ferrell's character, Harold Crick, is stuck in a meaningless job where nothing seems to go his way and in a life that is lonely at best.  He confesses in one scene his belief that he's actually living out a tragedy.  We can probably identify.  We've been there; life often feels like it's one big tragedy.

But we know better.  Christians are not living in a tragedy but a comedy.  Everything will come together in the end to the praise of God.  Our God is the creator of comedies.  Sarah testifies to this with her statement in chapter 21:  God has made laughter for me.  What an amazing ending to a long and tiring journey.  Finally, it all came together.  The hurt, the pain, the stress, the sorrow, the doubt was all answered by God's amazing ability to come through and bring new life out of the deadness.  Read Romans 4:18-25.  There we see the connection between Abraham's life and the resurrection of the dead.  So it shall be for us.  We're not on the losing side of history.  God will come through.  The promise-maker is a promise-keeper.  Keep going.  Don't give up.  Don't grow weary.  We will all laugh with joy again.  Peace.