So you ask, why am I tells you all this, God, yes God, He was here when Adam and Eve were created. He was here when Noah built a boat miles from any water, not to mention no one had seen rain yet. God was with Jonah, three days in a fish. God was with a Sheppard boy, David, guided the rock from David’s sling toward Goliath. God was with Marry when Gabriel told her she would be with child. God was with Joseph when he fled Bethlehem to escape Herod. God was with Jesus throughout his life, doing miracles, healing leper’s, giving site to the blind. Easter is the only moment in history that God was not with Jesus. As Jesus was hanging on the cross He said My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.? For it was when Jesus took on mine sin and yours as well as the sins of the world that God could not be with His son. Harsh, I think not, God is perfect, He will not be in the same room as sin. Once Christ died he was reunited with his father, God was with Mary when she went to the tomb. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit were with the the apostles in the upper room. God was with a bunch of people a little over 244 years ago and started a nation.
And I believe God is here today, in the midst of all the weird things going on. For our God is not a weak god, small g, but rather a great God, full of power, mercy, and righteousness. Wanting none to perish, rather all to come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. For the way to the Father is through His son. Will God stop this pandemic. I don’t know. Will we as a nation stop sinning so God can bless this nation And use us to further His kingdom. The people of Nineveh repented. In Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened. That same God wants us to follow him today. I have found no verse that says in 2020 we can do whatever we want, for God no longer cares. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
We need to pray for ourselves, that we know God. Pray for friends and family, that they to, know God, their health, wisdom to know what to do. Pray for our businesses, that they can get up and running to provide the goods that the people need. Pray for our government, that they have a relationship with Jesus, that they make the decisions that God want, that they stand up to things that are wrong, that go against God. Pray for this nation, that it would be like Nineveh. Pray for our churches, that they can comfort the people who are scared and lost.
David Thompson