"And they said among themselves, 'Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?'" (Mark 16:3)
Answer? Don't worry; Jesus has already taken care of that.
And, my friend, we can say the same thing about the madness now gripping the world. I thought again today of Bob Mumford's statement of some years ago. "You can control the Church, but you cannot control the Kingdom." Church leaders and governmental leaders all over the world today are discovering the reality of this. King Jesus is manifesting Himself as King of, "The Kingdom of GodT/Heaven." The current "pandemic" is bringing home the term, "global events." This is more "global" than previous "World Wars."
This is also an opportunity for you and me to hear and recognize the reign of King Jesus and His Words, as the Psalm refers to Him, "The Kingdom is the Lord's, and He rules over the nations." We must not attempt to rely on past cliche responses to daily life or global events. There is an aspect of Isaiah 24 loosed in the earth, "Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste.... And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest;...as with the creditor, so with the debtor....The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none may go in."
What we are witnessing is beyond the Church. We are watching our Lord Jesus Christ moving in the Earth as, "King of kings, and Lord of lords." Even in the midst of suffering and "uncertainty," I quote our Lord Jesus again, "And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!"
Father, in Jesus' Name, keep me ever watching and listening to You. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
