God Still Reigns

We’re sitting in the living room awash in the flashes of lightning coming through the window. A storm has swung in from the northwest with high winds, baseball sized hail, and heavy rain. As a result, this storm is no fun. It seems as if the tension of the past few days has unleashed itself over northern Virginia.

The King of Pop is dead, riots and bloodshed in Iran, North Korea threatening nuclear stupidity, and we’re expecting a baby today! Can you believe it? In the midst of all this foolish craziness God would trusts us with a baby?

Well, I don’t know about trust but she’s certainly coming any day now. I just hope she waits until the storm passes. Hopefully she’ll wait a few more years before she starts chasing storms like her old man. Yep, as crazy as it sounds I would love to be driving around in this mess with a video camera. Never said I wasn’t a little crazy. In fact, I admit it! Maybe that’s we’re having this baby In the midst of all this craziness?Someone once said, “God’s way of showing trust in the world he created was for another child to be born.” I’d like to think that was true. If so, so then God has entrusted me with the focus of his hope and trust. Scary thought isn’t? For those that know me it must be terrifying.

No matter how terrible it is. Despite the sadness. In defiance of the violence. Disregarding the dismal economy. On spite of the hopelessness.

God still reigns.
My God…
Your God…
Our God…

As long as God still rules this universe, and retirement doesn’t suit God, hope still exists. When someone tells you God doesn’t exist, then their hope has died. If they are angry at God’s seeming absence point them to the cross. If they wonder how could God allow children to be killed by falling trees remind them that his died on a tree.

God is neither absent nor asleep nor ignorant of who and what and where we are. Even in the midst of the storm (Mark 4:35-41) Jesus rested heavily in the care of his Father, the Creator of the Universe. We should take his advice and and rest in God.

The storm has passed. The TV is back on. Everything is back to normal. And God still reigns -especially in the midst of the storm.

Peace!