If you are anything like me and a lot of other people in this country, you are sick. Sick and tired of so much around you. Things like, not being able to walk safely to your car in a public parking lot, traffic tie-ups that can keep you trapped on the interstate for hours, and constant scams being foisted on you to separate you from your money. Cons from ‘companies’ (and I use that term very loosely) that are worried about your car maintenance, or offering you tax relief help, or the ever popular “Congratulations, you qualify for a new credit card!”
Another thing that makes my tongue curl is the way our Creator and our God is vilified and mocked in our modern society. I would be terrified to treat Him the way people do today. As if their Creator doesn’t exist, or at the least, is just a feeble and powerless Being who has no say in what goes on in today’s world. Therefore, everyone is free to behave in any way they choose. And their ‘any way I choose’ usually doesn’t involve adjectives like honest, clean, wholesome or selfless.
Here’s facts, folks. Our Creator has always existed. He still exists. He will always exist. And He is more powerful than we can ever comprehend. Try imagining a tiny sugar ant carrying 50 million smaller sugar ants on its back. When it comes to the power and complete authority of God, you and I are much like one of those 50 million ants. Only a lot smaller.
Oh yes, definitely, I would be terrified to defy Him the way people are today. Depressing and scary stuff.
If I sit and dwell on what I am seeing, I feel myself beginning to spiral downward. There doesn’t seem to be much hope for tomorrow. But if I pull my thoughts up short and talk some sense to myself, I realize; “Hey, idiot! There is an All-Powerful, All-Knowing God who is watching this universe! And just because things look horrible from your perspective does not mean that He has lost control. It means He is also patient. And just. And there will come a time when everyone receives payment for their actions. Painful or thrilling. Fun or terrifying. But it will happen.”
Hang in there, folks. Do your best to live well. Remind yourself that you are not in charge, and your infuriated opinions and feelings are not necessarily at the top of God’s “Top Things to Handle and Fix Today.”
You and I are free to fume and worry, that’s true. But it doesn’t change a thing. He has this world firmly in His grasp, and He definitely knows what He is doing. Always has and always will. Our God and Creator is totally patient, totally just, and totally in charge.
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