There’s so much to be afraid of mentally as we all cower in our homes from a virus the government said we had to be afraid of. I’ve had it and add a super obese woman with chronic sinus and lung problems as well as a neuromuscular autoimmune disease, I can tell you it’s very much like any flu. Yes, all the other viruses we had before this killed us too. That has always been a tragedy, but never one so in the spotlight.
There’s so much to think about and worry over if we let ourselves. A current President who doesn’t seem to know what’s going on, who sent troops directly back into warzones we had left, who killed 50,000 jobs in his first few days as head honcho, who signed a blank paper on camera that they told us was an “executive action” while he said aloud on microphone “Don’t even know what I’m signing but okay”.
That’s not to mention all the things that have happened in the last year or last 20 years. That’s not to even bring up the countless interpersonal tragedies and hardships we’ve all faced as the world fell apart around us.
And we, as Christ followers, we look around and see, if we’ve asked God to open our eyes, if we are being wise as serpents as well as innocent as lambs: we see the lies. We see that things seem wrong. Our discerning Spirits say “Be wary, that’s not quite what it seems!”
And we sometimes think more information will fix it. So we begin to look into things, we research. We see more and more that’s disturbing to the Spirit. We see more and more that seems like a piece to a puzzle we’ve got no overarching picture of. Here’s quantum banking, war castles, rumors of new Independence. There’s parallel economies, forced vaccinations, RFID chipping, censorship, false news, real news, and so much more…
And it occurred to me today that none of it matters much. Not to we sovereign by God’s grace individuals.
What we need, and what we need to focus on is so simple.
Just keep seeing God’s Face. Simply turn your eyes on Jesus.
Only spend your time with the people right next to you, treating them as closely as you can to the way Jesus would ask you to treat them.
There’s no more needed than that.
In these ways we plant seeds for all Jesus stands for, Truth, Justice, Peace, Hope, Love, and the ultimate saving from a world constantly gone awry in too many ways for a human to understand.
Just put it all in His hands. Free your own for loving your family, helping your neighbors.
Go out and build communities where what we believe together in that community is of value becomes the treasured currency.
We have all power to exit any nonsense this world serves up as “rule” or “law” by merely serving the Lord himself and doing what we can to love those actually in our lives and neighborhoods.
Don’t worry about anything else. God will take care of the rest.
Let us remember today that even in a world we humans always seek to overcomplicate, the battle remains The Lord’s. See Verses about this here.
And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God’s.
2 Chronicles 20:15
Yahweh is fighting for you! So be still!”
Exodus 14:14
Lord,
Remind us that no amount of information mining will show us what You know. Nothing in this world that is not directly in our lives or power to change directly will be influenced by our knowing of it.
Let us seek You first and expect all things to be added unto us as You’ve said they will be. Help us to sink down into the Peace and calm of knowing You know and understand all, and that we don’t have to do so.
Let us remember that the battles is Yours. And help us to do our part to pray against the injustices we see, and to treat others as You’ve called us to. That is enough work for any of us on any day.
In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen
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