Here we are in the very beginning of the coronavirus shutdown, no one saw this coming (other than the people who tell us every day that the sky is falling - remember that even a broken clock is accurate twice a day). Not only did we not see this coming, no one knows how long it will last. This event that we are living through was not orchestrated by humans, for no human or group of humans could manipulate the nations across the globe into taking the catastrophic action that governments are taking all over the world.
If we take our eyes off the nations for a moment and look internally into our church family, we recognize that there is a wide variance in the effect on individuals. For some - what is happening is extremely difficult, for others to a lesser extent and yet everyone of us is being affected by events beyond our control moving at a breath-taking pace.
Would the words of the LORD spoken through Haggai accurately describe the times we are experiencing right now? “I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.” Truly the nations are being shaken, and our world as we know it is being turned upside down, and because the nations are made up of individual people, this verse is referring to an earth-shaking event that affects everyone. Now if we have the faith to believe this truth from God’s Word, to believe that this type of shaking comes from Him, we will only experience comfort by believing the truth that this God is the God of love who gave His Son for us, the God who loves us with unfailing love, who chose us in Christ to be His children, who asks us to call Him Father.
May we as children of the King be filled with confidence that the LORD, the Lover of our soul is the One doing the shaking. Notice that the shaking described in Haggai 2:7 has a wonderful purpose, for our God does not shake for the sake of causing turmoil in our lives, rather He shakes for the purpose of drawing us to his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. May we draw near to our God wherever we are, and experience the wonderful benefits of fellowship with Him, for His grace will bring us strength and His peace will guard our minds and hearts.
Pastor John
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