GRACE

Genesis 1:1-2
Genesis 1:14-18

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, ‘Let there be light and there was light.

The aforementioned was the order of things in the period when God created the heavens and the earth.

However when God said, “Let there be light and there was light the order of things or rather the status quo was disrupted.

And the moment the status –quo was disrupted then chaos was introduced on the face of the earth.

Chaos is the disruption of the status-quo.

The disruption of the status-quo is the change in the known order of life.

The moment God said, “Let there be light and there was light, life as it was known or rather the order of life as it was known was thrown into a disruption.

Every now and then God is getting ready to do what he has never done before he introduces chaos in the place of order.

And when this happens order is substituted for chaos and chaos comes in the place of order.

What you have known as order ceases to be the moment God introduces chaos with the purpose of rising up a new standard and a new ways of doing things.

In Genesis chapter 1:14-18 God said,” Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the nigh, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so.

God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.He also made the stars.

God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.

In critical analysis and observation Genesis chapter 1:14-18 institutionalizes a new world order far different from the era of Genesis 1:1-2 where the earth was formless and empty.

A new era that was hitherto ushered in by chaos and the disruption of order.

Every now and then God is about to introduce a new order of life he uses chaos as the harbinger.

God has the ability to introduce a problem on the face of the earth that he alone can solve.

In order to remind the world that he alone is sovereign and that his face is worthy to be sought by everything that has got breath.

God has the propensity to disarm the world of its knowledge and intelligence as much as its power using a global catastrophe that he alone has an answer to.

The number 5 is symbolic of an institution and an embodiment of the grace of God as well as the hand of God.

Wherever the hand of God is there also is the favor of God.

Wherever the hand of God is there also is the revelation of God.

Wherever the hand of God is there also is the gift of God.

Wherever the hand of God is there also is the opportunity to have the wisdom and the knowledge of God.

Wherever the hand of God is there also the grace of God.

The whole world seems to be going through a major catastrophe at present with the going on corona virus pandemic and all the major cities of the world are on lock down.

Hamlets and subways that were hitherto filled with people are now deserted because everyone seems to be social distancing and in self-quarantine.

There is fear of the unknown gripping the world population because of a pandemic that is void of a cure.

Scientists and the most brilliant of researchers are all perplexed at the spread and rate at which the virus is spreading and killing populations.

Presently the entire global medical field is fighting a losing battle even though we believe the battle shall be eventually won.

But to say the least what does this all mean?

God is doing a new thing and introducing a new way of life and the present chaos is only an usher of the new wave of divine grace that God is going to out-pour upon the face of the earth.

This grace will be the definition of business unusual.

The way the world operated before this chaos came into our midst is going to be no more.

A new way of doing things in the world has come upon as and the institution of that new era is the grace of God.

If the grace of God is defined as unmerited favor then the favor of God is going to increase in the world as much as the very presence of God almighty.

Thus social distancing is not only designed by man to flatten the curve of the present virus but it’s an occasion for self-purification in the event of meeting God on a level we have never met him before.




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