I remembered as a child being told in Sunday school, there would be a time the presence of God would not be felt in the world. We’ll be crying out to God and he will not answer, because of sin, God would be far from humanity. There’s scripture in the Bible to back this up Jeremiah 11:14, Zechariah 7:13, Ezekiel 5:11,and it was taught that this was going to take place in the last days. As a child it petrified me, the thought of God leaving us and the devil being able to take control knowing that he is the evil one, my imagination took advantage of my fears and vulnerability. I promised to pray all the time that the Lord presence would always with me regardless. I was not going to allow God to leave me. I would always blink my eyes and there would be light that flashes before me in which I would call my imaginary friend whom I called, Father. These circles of light that surrounded me and would never ever abandon me, I truly believed. I couldn’t bare the thought of being in darkness and God not being there. I was almost fifty years old when I’d learned to sleep without a night light. I put it in my Will that when I die my family has to keep a light for me always and don’t allow my body in a freezer without light, for I fear darkness that much. The Lord’s presence to me from a child always represented by light, like the sun, it’s hard to imagine the earth without it.
How can we keep the flames of faith from burning out, at a time when the presence of God is obscured by so much negativity in our world. From the beginning of the pandemic until this very moment I find there’s been a movement, a shift of energy in our world, negativity fighting against positivity. All that is true and righteous, is in a struggle to stand and maintain. It’s fight against an invisible evil forces you can’t see or touch, but there is this undeniable fact of its existence, that we’re in a war, a spiritual war. It seems like good is now evil and evil is now good. The greed for power, control and money has taking over the minds of many and that which once was a priority before anything else (God) has now become only for convenience, placed way in the back of everything else. Out of sight, out of mind, this is the position our Lord has taken in our lives as faith is based on what is seen and tangible. Remember there was a time being poor was following and being like Jesus. Now fame and wealth is because of being obedient, follow and be like Jesus. We are being motivationally empowered and taught this. “Why settle for anything less?” We still don’t get it, we can be rich and still poor and poor and still rich. We all want to be rich, don’t want to just get by, we desperately want to be able to pay all our bills and still have leftover to do whatever we want to do, like go on vacations, buy a new car, help others…whatever. We still don’t get it whether rich or poo it’s all about our spirit within and our relationship with the Heavenly Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is all on a level of spiritual awakening and understanding.
We got to get down on our knees, clasp our hand and bow our heads and begin to fast and pray like never before. Get out our Bible begin to read the books of the prophets and revelations and recognize the irony on what humanity is going through again for our disobedience to the word of God. After the life death and resurrection of Jesus, I refuse to be like the Israelites in the Wilderness going around in circles for forty years after being delivered out of Egypt slavery because of their lack of wisdom, knowledge and understanding of what the Lord was doing in their lives when bringing them out of captivity. We got to read the Bible to truly get the understanding of humanity ignorance when concerning how we ourselves can impact the change for the betterment of our world.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. We’re living in a time of lawlessness and the grieving of the Holy Spirit. It is better that we didn’t know the truth, than to know and still choose to go against it. And the truth is God is real and obedience to him is going to make our world a better place and our lives filled with peace when together we overcome the power and authority of devil for good. For us to go against Him is sealing our lives to all kind of disasters and causing the end of days instead of changing it. He’s on his way, no longer coming. God’s existence is present throughout our entire world and also the preaching of the gospel has spread. There’s now no place in the world the gospel has not been preached and exposed, whether believed, excepted or not, social media has completed the disciples mission.
Genesis 3:8-10, God never would leave us, we turn away from God. The enemy from the beginning of time always finds away to lure us away from God. But no matter what God comes calling and searching until we answer. Hebrews 13:5 “ Keep your lives free from the love of money, but the devil makes us suffer without having it by temptation and deceit. And be content with what you have, because God had said, “never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” But yet today, our faith is wavered in these times of what seems hopeless, fearful, uncertain, desperate and in need.