“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
The earth has spun off its axis and we live in frightening times, but this verse anchors our faith. God is the “Alpha and the Omega”. He is now… always has been… and always will be the King. And that should influence the way I react to “crises”.
God is different than us. The moment we arrive on this planet a countdown begins. We are allotted a predetermined number of minutes, and everything we do is influenced by the temporariness of our existence. Ironically, we spend much of our time in desperate attempts to get just one minute more.
But God is immune to the taskmaster we refer to as time… There are no clocks in Heaven. There is no pressure, no rush, no lateness… no anxiety about squandering time, because in Eternity there is no such thing. The Great I AM is always in the past, present, and future tense.
Today, I pray that the future will be peaceful, but I rest in the fact that God has seen our tomorrows, and that the Bible has already recorded our triumphant final outcome.
No one is pacing the floor in Heaven. God is not anxious about America, or China, or Russia, or viruses, or AI, or anything else. God controls it all. So, I either need to trust Him, or I need to panic… but it is irrational to do both as they are mutually exclusive… so I need to choose.
In Revelation God tells the church at Laodicea that their lukewarmness nauseates Him. Their indifferent attitude, and superficial approach toward God make Him sick… I don’t want to do that. I want to trust God so thoroughly that nothing disturbs my composure. I want to concentrate on what He has assigned me to accomplish today, and then tomorrow get up and do it again. That should be the pattern until one day my work is completed, and I go home.
If I will just trust Him, God will produce a peaceful confidence that will transform my life… If I remember that the Navigator of my life is in complete control, I can sit back and enjoy the ride.
“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.” - Leif Enger
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