Those who study the tea leaves, as they say, might need to take a sabbatical in the days ahead. In hurricane territory, we start learning about a storm brewing in the Atlantic weeks in advance. What’s happening in the world today has been advancing toward us with powerful winds and it’s not veering. There’s calm now but uneasiness. On all fronts there seems to be uncertainty, but more importantly evil. We’ve been discounting incidents here and there as “one offs,” but how many of these happening at the same time amount to an endemic? These days, there is no rock large enough to crawl under.
Right now our monetary system is in danger of collapsing, cities have been invaded and overrun, AI is insidiously sucking the humanity out of our culture, and entire people groups are being wiped out in other hemispheres, many of whom are Christians. At the same time, while we possess the means to learn about these dangers in order to prepare, our heads are buried in our phones watching memes and taking selfies and drinking exotic lattes. It may be wrong for some of us to be gravely concerned and off the deep end with attempts to prep for the coming storm. Truth is, there’s not enough plywood in the world available to help us weather what’s coming. But there’s much said in the Bible about being wise, and knowing the end of the story, we have a leg up.
The only hunkering down that we can do is with our God, and the only useful information is in His word. If we’ve built our house on the rock, there’s nothing else we can do but to trust Him to save us. Our safe haven ultimately is with Him anyway. Somehow I need to restart, refresh, and refocus.
That things have gone awry as we speak should not surprise us, but drive us into His word and to His throne. If God’s plan is true, things will go this way. We’ve had it good in this country for a long time. The storms have blown away. Our houses are still standing. But we know the Big One’s coming, “the likes of which” no one has ever experienced. The good news is, if we care to believe it, we will be rescued in its midst and wisked away. If you’re bound and determined to believe otherwise theologically, you’ll still be rescued! He said he will. It doesn’t make the storm more bearable, but it does take the edge off enough to function with some degree of normalcy and hope. It keeps us looking up, not for weather patterns, but for His return.
16 He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my stay. 19 He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me. (Psalm 18:16–19)
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