Day after day we rush out of our homes, head down, memorizing
the long to-do list we never seem to complete before coming home to crash at
sundown, mentally updating our list of tomorrow’s chores. As our heads hit our pillow and our eyes begin to close, perhaps we remember to direct our thoughts upward to God, either to breathe a brief prayer as we begin to doze or to feel a momentary frustration or feeling of hopelessness. Where's the joy? There's more to life than this. The Bible says so.
I wrote the above paragraph weeks ago and waited for God's comment before continuing. I believe He is making it clear that He also has been frustrated at our daily schedule taking far too much of our attention.
He is now providing time and incentive for us to look to Him for the answers we need, reminding us that our lives are more than the schedule which stole more of our attention than it deserved or needed. Now many of us have a surplus of time to spend with Him, and many of us (first responders) have found our attention to the routine rush usurped by weariness and stress from extra hours of work caring for others, leaving them too weary to think or pray.
His ways are not our ways. We seldom fully understand why He allows severe disruptions in our lives, We sometimes wonder whether we complained once too often how hard our lives had become. Yet we have been told this world is not our home, and for now we are subject to all it offers, good, bad or horrid. so, no! Fires, floods, storms, diseases happen. Now we can plainly see we are not His favorites, right after His chosen Hebrew nation. Complacent because for so long we called ourselves a Christian land, we're shocked to see ourselves as He sees us, no more deserving than all the others around the world where declaring their faith may be a death sentence. In the midst of crisis, He can call out to all His children, remind us not to look at trouble all around us, but instead to ask Him to hold us close and to fill our hearts with gratitude for His loving care.
Pray for each other. Pray He heals this world and pray we use any opportunity to share what we have learned about His great love, lest any soul should miss one last chance to meet our Savior.
