Mouths don’t say it. Media dances around it. Minds tend to dwell on it. But nobody is murmering it. “Has God left us?”
Is this epidemic that’s paralizing the world, a plague from God, announcing to the world, “He stopped loving us”. Or maybe, “He just doesn’t like us?”
“He has moved away. He has found such distain with us, He’s dropping his people like flies, and somehow wringing his hands in enjoyment from His castle in the clouds?”
Yet, what if God hasn’t left us? And He’s actullay getting closer?
They suffer in silence in homes that ran like hives of scattered bees, busy, yet stinging everyone who gets in their way.
Have we become like sleeper cells of families, called back to our original purpose? Not in offense against resistence, but working together like a unit to create something sweet, like honey?
A government splintered and stagnant, divided and divisive. A community of people separated on two islands by partison lines, has now come together in unisome to work for a common good.
That’s not evil, that’s blessing.
And although I find it ironic the states with the biggest reports of Coronavirus are those states with the most abortion clinics, swaying from Biblical tradition…
Eyes are looking away from self and are becoming pointed at serving others.
That’s not evil, that’s blessing.
Chidren, once farmed out to schools designed to partner with parents, are now dependent on their own families to feed, manage, maintain, and primarily raise their children.
Families are cooking together, spouses spend most days together.
Parents are cuddling, teaching, and raising up their children more.
That’s not evil. That’s blessing.
Children aren’t “out of sight, out of mind” from 8:00 a.m. until close to dinner time.
They are valued, treasured, seen and heard, and have become a vaulable part of family again.
They are made a priority. As was and still is their value to the heart of God.
That’s not evil, that’s blessing.
Those who idolized money or stock markets, possessions or shopping are left twirling in disarray, looking for purpose and something else to worship.
The church with no more walls, has resurrected the church in our hearts; praise and dependence and pressing people towards real relationship with Jesus.
That’s not evil, that’s blessing.
Sports, music lessons, bars, and extra curricular activites seem petty in light of a world suffering to continue.
The posts on Instagram aren’t taining with superficial, well-edited, carefully dressed perfectionism. Instead, they shine with hope and encourgaement, honesty and realism.
What if God hasn’t left us? He’s actually getting closer?
“The Lord disciplines those He loves.” (Hebrews 12:6, Psalms 3:12) But like a good parent, He doesn’t reprimand abusively, or punish unnecessarily.
And where the light of His goodness reigns, where the brilliance of His love burns, all darkness has to flee, all wickedness and hate, bitterness and selfishness has to bow its knee.
Jesus is King. And He is coming again. Even now.
As He nears, families are restored, eyes turn as the things we all worshipped before are falling like plastic statues, useless in light of the wind of God.
He comes. He is high and lifted up. Yet, like the seas parting in Egypt, anything hindering or keeping God’s people from walking through to our place above is shoved aside.
The enemy isn’t getting closer. He is getting weaker.
Every tentacle of flesh, the world, of selfishness that reeks of the enemy’s character is being drown out by his love, His power and the preparation of His triumphant entry.
We were once blind. Clinging to anything and everything we could get our hands on, apart from God. But what if….
When we wonder why our houses of cards are falling…
God hasn’t left us. He’s actually getting closer.
“What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” (2 Cor. 2:14)
When His light rises, darkness flees. When Jesus comes closer, evil shrinks and shreeks with a weak and pathetic exit. When Jesus drawns near, the power of His redemption previals…
The nails in His now scared hands, His walking existance shouts, “Death had no sting” frightening the enemy from his pathetic schemes.
All things wrong are alligned and put into place. All life finds its way to health, wholeness, and peace, wherever Jesus reigns.
There are reports of the world restoring itself. In Dehli, the skies are seen for the very first time in 10 years. People are fighting with their “progression”.
Slowing actually is working with nature, not against it.
The air is clearing and we are all seeing and breathing more fully, in more ways than one.
We are learning, the world God created us to live in isn’t an enemy we extract or strip from….But one we can coincide with, for peace, goodness, health, humanity and the godly benefit of future generations.
Maybe God hasn’t left us? Maybe He is actually nearer now than ever?
Families like astroids, once floating towards their own agendas, are now magnetically being pulled together; restored, redeemed, made inseparable and whole.
Marriages are becoming healthier. Children are playing, getting creative and actually know their siblings and parents.
That doesn’t sound like evil, that sounds like good to me.
God is the restorer of family. He produces good. We just have to look for goodness through the dark.
So, what if we instead of cursed this rancid epidemic swarming our planet, we actually opened our eyes and were able to see God in it?
When the plagues hit Egypt, God was on the cusp of using Moses to completely deliver His people.
Yet, some begged to go back to Egypt. Back to slavery. Back to where life meant chains and everything was selfishly handed to them.
New land. New ways. New wine skins, always mean stepping out in faith, looking at life completely different and trusting a God who leads in day, and at night, by fire.
God isn’t far. He is actually getting nearer.
Maybe this virus will help us slow down. Open our eyes. Get past ourselves to where we can see Him coming through the clouds….
He is parting the skies, cleaning the air, restoring families, slowing us down to make us more aware…
Life isn’t all about us. He is the one and only maker of it all. He wants to be King of our hearts. He is not mean and evil….but full of love and compassion.
Won’t you let His love draw you into this promise? Where He rests there are no shackles, no fear and no hopelessness.
There is only good. Good, coming throught the clouds, redeeming and restoring all that has spun way too far out, away from His will.
We are not in control. He is alligning this earth. And either we can join Him. Or we can crumble and let darkness win.
Friends, let’s have hope and begin believing…
God hasn’t left us. He is actually getting nearer.
