For us all, 2020 has been an amazing, disconcerting, troubling, troubled year on a variety of fronts.
- Early on, we had the beginnings of a global pandemic which has swept up the rest of the year.
- That pandemic may have been unleashed on the world by _____.
- Politicians all over seem to have indulged their inner tyrant under the pretext of dealing with the pandemic.
- Economies have staggered and shattered as a consequence.
- Millions have been infected with the coronavirus (aka, COVID-19). Thousands have died from it.
- Now the flu is down and suicides are up.
- Then came the American elections with its shifts in political power and overpowering whiffs of fraud, deceit, and other criminality in the results.
- And then there are the American news blackouts and tech giant censorships.
- Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the rioting, looting, and anarchy in various American cities, often tolerated or endorsed by those who should have been putting them down.
- And what about disrupted, restricted, and/or forbidden social interactions, religious events, and family fellowship?
- Oh, yes, and the injustice and disregard for law across all segments of society.
2020 — the year of big-time Wow!
Everywhere — injustice, deceit, misinformation, disinformation, confusion, illegalities, lawlessness, unconstitutionalities, mistrust, contempt, hatred, fear, insecurity, doubt, hopelessness, anger, conflict, defeat, sorrow, propaganda, distortions, authoritarianism, denial, hypocrisy, evil, oppression, unkindness, godlessness. (And to think the list is only begun!)
I began this blog post with a cousin in a California ICU in very critical condition with Covid-19. He’s been delivered of that since then. Makes the pandemic much more personal than it had been, that’s for sure!
To those who will see clearly, American freedoms and stability are under greater assault and in greater peril than ever before. Restoring all that has eroded away may no longer be possible. For sure, much toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube that will be very difficult to put back in.
The United States speeds ever more hastily toward the end of things as they have been. Globally, appetite surely builds for someone with answers and solutions, someone with provision and protection, a man with answers, a man of peace. A man who will turn out to be “that man of sin…the son of perdition” (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
So how do I find peace amidst all this? What is my one-step plan in dealing with covid-19, gubernatorial tyranny, authoritarian oppression, electoral fraud, economic instability, media manipulation, societal destabilization, and the looming one-world government and one-world religion?
The sovereignty of God.
Yes. That’s my answer to both questions.
God is…and He reigns and rules over all. He has lost control of nothing…and never will. He will accomplish His purposes.
In that I rest. I go to Him for peace. And perspective. And provision. And protection.
You can too.
My Mom did an acrostic about this almighty, sovereign God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of Peter, James, and John. The God of Anne, Noreen, and Mark.
Below is part of Mom’s acrostic. See it all here: Our Sovereign God: an Acrostic.
