Exodus 19:16-17
Isiah 41:13
Psalms 121:1
With all the global media outlets awash with news that cast fear in the mind and in the hearts of men and women across the earth for no one knows what is going to happen next except that everyone is left but to speculate.
Amidst the speculation fear and uncertainty has gripped the population of the world because entire global cities are on lock down.
No one knows what is going to happen next in this day and time.
What started as a mild case in Asia has now taken the whole world by storm without any measure of control.
Fear is fast overtaking faith because lives and their operations have been taken hostage by a pandemic that seems without cure at this moment in time.
Every sector and system that embodies the world has been disarmed and rendered powerless in the face of this global catastrophe.
However it’s here and now that I would want to tell you that the events of this present time are only orchestrated by God to prepare the population of the world for a divine and unique meeting with God Almighty.
In Exodus 19:16-17 three days after Moses had told the nation of Israel to consecrate themselves in preparation for a divine and unique meeting with God there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast.
Everyone in the camp trembled.
Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
In this season and period the entire population of the world is gripped with fear and in trembling because of the events that in actual sense are foretelling an up and coming meeting with God.
This up and coming meeting with God necessitates a period of consecration.
In many circumstances the events that surround the period of consecration are antithetical to our normal way of life.
And because of these circumstances surrounding the period of consecration that are antithetical to our normal way of life it becomes easy for us to be cast into fear and panic and consequently bringing us to a level where we get scared.
But according to Isiah 41:13, it declares, “For Am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear; I will help you.
There is no point in being scared because the Lord has vowed in Isiah 41:13 that he will hold us by the right hand and eventually help us through this period of uncertainty that has literally shut down entire global cities.
Be calm because this situation will change and because this situation will change we have got to keep on walking, climbing and turning corners even though we have gotten to a place of having to survive with bare essentials.
We can’t give up our faith in the Lord God Almighty because once we do this then fear will overcome and once fear triumphs over faith then the world will get dark leaving us with no sense of direction.
God is a very present help in the time of trouble that’s the very reason why the psalmist argues in Psalms 121:1, I lift up my eyes to the hills-where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of the heaven and earth.
Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The sun will not harm us by day, nor the moon by night.
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