Human Frailty And Divine Power

When things are going well, it’s easy for us to think that we are in control. Then small things hit us and we are on our knees.

I was talking with the woman who does my nails. And she was telling me how the coronavirus affected her life. This is what got me to thinking about this.

I think back to the coronavirus. A small microscopic virus hit and everyone was in a frenzy. It’s surprising to me that something so small can disrupt the world. Entire companies shut down, concerts and sporting events were canceled, and the world was quarantined. And we think we are in control.

It amazes me how people who live in relative isolation from God can blame God when something bad happens as if He were a celestial nanny who helps when we call on Him and then stays in a broom closet when we don’t. But that isn’t the God of the Bible.

Being a child of God, however, is a totally different situation. I have removed all trust in myself and placed my trust for all things in Jesus. We are not only forgiven, justified, sanctified, and redeemed, we are adopted into His family. If we believe in His name, He gives us the right to become children of God.

“But as many as received Him, to then He gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, not of the will of flesh, not of the will of man, but of God” – John 1:12-13

The benefits of being His child instill a confidence that no matter what happens we know He is our firm anchor in the stormy seas of life. He is so much in charge that He promises to work in all situations to achieve good in His children.

When I see someone ridiculing God and His child, I see people who think they are in control -the matter of their own fate and the captain of their souls. Psalm 2 gives us a message of human frailty and divine power.

Psalm 2 speaks to the nations and about the coming of Jesus,

“Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? The kings and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed, saying,

God responds:

“The One enthroned in heaven laughs, the Lord scoffs at them.“

He warns the people:

Therefore, you kings, be wise, be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate His rule with trembling.

But to His children, He promises:

“Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.”

It’s sad to me that it takes catastrophic events like 9/11 and the coronavirus to remind us that God is our Father (if we are in fact His children ), and that He had made wonderful promises to us, not to keep us from all harm, but to walk us through the dangers of this world and to usher us safely into His kingdom. To the victorious of those who remain faithfully His children.

Revelation 2:10 tells us,

“Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

We you understand all human security is an illusion. The only thing that is certain is that nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus. “His children know for sure, in perilous times, that neither “trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword can loosen us from God. In these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” (Romans 8:35 -37)

In Romans 8:38:39 Paul says,

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels not demons, neither present not the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, will be able to spectate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

And that is more than enough.