djm
May 9, 20201 min read
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Knowing
The Times
The Changing World
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering” and appealed for “an all-out effort to end hate speech globally."
God is the still point of a moving Universe
Matt 6: 9 - 15 (The Message version)
Our Father in heaven,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right;
Do what’s best— as above, so below.
Keep us alive with three square meals.
Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil.
You’re in charge!
You can do anything you want!
You’re ablaze in beauty!
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Everything Has Its Time
What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?
I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Also He has put eternity in their hearts,
except that no one can find out the work that
God does from beginning to end.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice,
and to do good in their lives, and also that
every man should eat and drink and enjoy
the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.
Eccl 3
The Promise to
those who believe
in His Word ...
I am with you always
CONCERN FOR CONSEQUENES
We are witnessing the manifold consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic globally.
There are many aspects of everyday life for common folks that are still unfolding.
Personal :
Workstyle change, unemployment
Family life:
Forced together-ness,
loss of personal time and space
Social:
Isolation, social demotivation
Loss of recreational activities, social enjoyment
Spiritual:
New questions about meaning
God’s purpose and Soveregnity
Upswing of dark forces of evil and destruction
ACTIVITIES
The King is Coming ....
Rev 21: 12 -13 “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."
STAY INFORMED
Christian response to Covid19 pandemic
Context of pandemics in the end times
SHARE AND PRAY
Reflect, Confess, Intercede
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
and My people (who are known by My name) humbly pray, follow My commandments, and abandon any actions or thoughts that might lead to further sinning, then I shall hear their prayers from My house in heaven, I shall forgive their sins, and I shall save their land from the disasters.
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
Martin Luther
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