" 2020? What have you done to me? Why do I need to witness this? I remembered January 1 of 2020 that this is going to be MY YEAR. Alot of us need a fresh start but what is happening now I think I wanted it to end. " from a typical citizen of this earth
Sad to say that the beginning of the year was not really the ones we expect, I know alot of us are expecting to start on the right track or hoping this year your business will be EXPANDING and looking forward to get married for some.
And then reality hits us hard, The news was on their usual routine of giving the dose of "BAD NEWS" their are good news as well. But what we saw was literally "HEARTBREAKING"
It was the WORST.
Let me give you some of the things that happened at the start of 2020:
- US killing of Iran's Soleimani. ...
- Downing of Ukrainian plane. ...
- Trump impeachment inquiry. ...
- Putin's political shake-up. ...
- Coronavirus outbreak. ...
- Philippines volcano eruption. ...
- Turkey earthquake.
- Kobe Bryant's tragic death
Alot of tragic events that is happening and to think that we are still in the three months of 2020.
I know at this time we are trying to find PEACE, because everything around us is CHAOTIC.
Especially, the CORONA VIRUS (COVID-19) just wanted to highlight this because this what has stopped us on our tracks.
But inspite of everything that is happening around us, HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND? Should we drown ourselves in misery? or should we curse God? Do we need to care or not?
THE BEST RESPONSE IS TO SIMPLY PAUSE.
Pause means the TEMPORARY STOP OF ACTION.
Psalms 46:10
"Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”
This was written by David he is the man after God's own heart, He wrote this Psalm to remind us to take HOPE in the Lord and to take comfort in God when things look very black and threatening.
I know that we are facing a CRISIS that we cannot control, and its a BAD START of the year but I want to tell you a reality that someone is in CONTROL.
Our timeline says that "we wanted to end it now, it's getting worst" but sometimes God doesn't work on our timeline because he wants to REVEAL OUR HEART, OUR RESPOND.
God is in CONTROL and SOVEREIGN.
So what is MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS CHAOTIC TIME?
PAUSE, PRAY AND TRUST.
