Welcome to Day 5 of the 2020 RWISA "RISE-UP" Blog Tour! Each day, I will be featuring an amazing RWISA author and a piece he/she has written to focus on one of our two themes: A World Without Mom and/or How Living in This New World Has Change Me. Today's author is Joy Nwosu-Lo-Bamijoko.
WATCH AND PRAY
Indeed, these
are difficult times. A time for soul-searching. A time to take notice of just how
fragile we humans are, and, a time to look to God for solutions.
There is a plague
ravaging the whole world, and what are we doing? We are running helter-skelter,
trying one remedy after another by trial and error. Each day we are thrown
deeper into a pile of confusion with all the false and misleading information
we are being given. And still, there is no solution in sight.
We are a people
who have built huge cities, shuttled to the Moon, and created structures mightier
than our imaginations. We have accomplished so much greatness, that
now we have begun to believe that we are gods - that we have all the answers
and solutions to everything. The human looks around and sees the great things
God has given him … the knowledge and skills to achieve, and now, he believes he can challenge God. Because
of these reckless beliefs, man goes into laboratories to play God - looking for
ways to surpass God’s greatness.
The result is
what we are experiencing today. God created order; man creates dis-order. God
sits and watches us, like He did with us during the time of the Tower of Babel,
with man trying to prove that we are gods. With His little finger, He muddled
the waters to show us that only He is God, and
He is the only one in control. Now, we have gone ahead and messed up the order
of things again, and He continues to watch us. What amusement it must be for
Him to see us wreaking havoc in the world, and then trying to clean it up
without much success.
I don’t believe
that God will allow the whole human race to perish because of this. Those who
believe in Him are praying, and those who do not, are still clueless.
Eventually, God will relent, and again, with His little finger, redirect things
in His own good time. He will inspire a human to come up with a solution to end
the pandemic; a human who will probably take the credit for doing so. It will
not matter at all. God knows His creatures more than we know ourselves. He will
understand. Those who know the ways of God will thank Him for the end of the
pandemic because they will be able to see the hand of God at work in it.
Will the end of
this pandemic stop the non-believers from trying to one-up God? Never! That is not the nature of the evil one.
He never stops trying to prove to his followers that he is more powerful than
God - that whatever God can do, he can do better.
All I know and
pray for is that whoever inflicted this pandemic on the world is going to be in
great trouble at the end of it all. They will pay! This will come back to haunt
them, person per person, death per death, economy per economy, for all they
have done. So, help me God!
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Thank you, Yvette, for hosting Joy. Her reflection is most inspiring. All the best to you both! ♥
ReplyDeleteI agree, Gwen. Thanks for stopping by! :-)
DeleteHi Yvette and thank you for sharing Joy's profound message.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy that you could stop by, Shirley! :-)
DeleteHi, Yvette! Thank you for sharing Joy's thought-provoking post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Jan! :-)
DeleteThank you, Yvette, for hosting Joy's post. I love how she brings our attention back to God.
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