Always waiting for things to go bad?

Ever hear that chicken story? A farmer feeds the bird every day, and the chicken assumes, “Ah, he loves me.” Then one day it’s dinner time, and the chicken’s the meal. The moral: patterns can deceive. Everything good feels temporary, everything safe eventually collapses. Ecclesiastes calls it “chasing the wind.”

But Jesus flips that fear on its head. He says, “Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

Instead of the farmer taking life, the Father gives eternal life. Instead of feeding you for slaughter, He feeds you with His own body and blood.

Instead of being fed for slaughter, we’re fed with His own body and blood. At the cross, we braced for wrath, but He stepped in front of it. Hebrews 2:14 says He died “so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death.”

The world trains us to expect the rug to get pulled. The Gospel breaks that cycle. The ending isn’t worse than we fear, it’s better than we can imagine.

So while the world’s patterns breed cynicism (“sooner or later the rug gets pulled”), the Gospel interrupts that cycle. The ending is better than we fear, not worse.