Good Morning! A little late today; I enjoyed one of those late night installations this morning. Well, I wake up to find reports of Kim Jung Il apologizing for nuclear tests and the Cardinals going to the MLB World Series, can the day get any stranger than it has begun? Perhaps the Dow will hit 13,000 just to prove to me how strange a day can become. Why are some days perceived as better or worse, stranger or more same than the usual; whatever the usual might be? For one thing, God sends trials to remind us of our dependence upon Him. We are not only saved by grace through faith, but we live by faith as well. In Hebrews, the author gives us the answer to the question a child might ask. “The Son reflects God’s own glory, and everything about Him represents God exactly. He sustains the universe by mighty power of His command. After He died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the place of honour at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven.” (Heb 1:3, NLT) That question is “What holds up the earth?” We are dependent upon God for more than we realize most of the time. The stars and planets did not appear by accident; the Lord of creation put them in their places and keeps them where He will. Even the little things like a virus are controlled by our Lord. A virus is dependent upon a host to reproduce. If a virus becomes so toxic that it kills its hosts before it has time to spread to others, it will cease to exist. I read about one plague back in jolly old England that did just that. If God had not designed in that limitation, none of us would be around today. Often we walk through a day in ignorance of how close the entire universe might be to flying apart, destroying every life form in it. We simply don’t know these things. What are we to do about it? Nothing at all, this area is under God’s control and if there is nothing we can do about it there is certainly nothing to be gained by worrying over it. We can live by faith or we can live in ignorance.
God be with you this weekend!
Bucky
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