GOODNESS THAT STAYS June 10, 2020

Trying to keep updated with what is happening around the world is a double edged sword—it lets us be more aware and vigilant, but it is disheartening too.  Even the highest official of the top health and disease control office from the world’s greatest nation has seemingly surrendered and indicated that he is at a loss as to how to control and spread the pandemic ravaging their nation, not to mention having no assurance when the vaccine can be developed, much less mass produced and administered, and whether that will happen in what would preferably be the soonest time possible.  How much more in developing countries like ours, with our limited resources and underdeveloped infrastructure and technology?

And then too, we hear of the rising bankruptcies and unemployment figures around the world, and can only wonder at the consequent misery and desperation this will entail in the coming months and years.  And not to mention that with the earth’s resources severely under strain and food security at a peril, there are reasonable estimates of a ballooning world population due to a spike in unplanned pregnancies from the lockdowns.

It is true that our generation today are witnesses and players in the realization of our most bizzare and nightmarish sci-fi dystopia.  I don’t wonder why my late maternal grandmother watched ‘Soylent Green’ in her 30s and was still horrified by it almost four decades later.  Such scenes could happen anytime in the future, in any megacity in the planet.

However, there is still cause for hope.  The Word today says in Exodus chapter 33, that there is only one good thing that matters and that we must pay attention to—our GOD: our memories of all the good things He has done for us in the past, all the adversities He has delivered us from, and His promise that in spite of all that we face, His presence will be with us always, and He will give us rest.

He is a good GOD, and not only will we still see His deliverance and grace, His glory and power, we also still have a sure hope that He who never changes will do these things and more, until the great day we are all waiting for.

So no matter the troubles we encounter now and in the future, we only need to hide behind the ‘cleft on the rock’ until His wrath passes, and until we are graced by His presence and glory.  Let us hold on tight in faith to this kind of goodness that stays.