Lately my stomach has been in knots. There's a lot of turmoil and distress in and around all our lives due to political, economic, and personal life challenges. It's so easy to lose sight and suffocate under a cloud of negativity during vulnerable times. A dear bother up in
Christians live in these uncertain times too, but with the assurance of a present reality and a future hope. The present reality is that God, as the well-known song goes, has got the whole world in His hands. The future hope is His return to make all things new. These are the truths our friends need to consider as they ask where is God in all this. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote this comment to the question of why God has not landed in force and invaded this troubled world.
"God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else—something it never entered your head to conceive—comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it."
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