Jesus Is The Answer To Our Collateral Damage

What does your life say about whether or not Satan is right about God’s people. Will you only serve God if He comes through with the things you want for your life? Do you have a list of demands that God must meet before you will consider the claims of Jesus Christ upon your life.

If you lost everything but your soul and your ability to serve God, would you still serve him? Have you come to that point in which you can realize, God is the source of the things in your life.

Losses will affect us in one of two ways. We can become better or we can become bitter. One thing for sure, we cannot control whether or not or we will be a part of some collateral damage. We certainly cannot control when we will be a part of collateral damage.

I’m not sure why God allowed the creation and the spread of the corona virus. It did get our attention that we are all vulnerable to death. It did force us to realize that the control we think we have in this life is an illusion.

One thing for sure is that we have all been collateral damage in it’s wake. Some of us have suffered a lot more severely than others. Unfortunately in the next few months, the focus will be on blaming one politician after another on who should have done what and when should it have been done.

We will go back to thinking we are little gods capable of producing perfect solutions to any problem that comes up. I doubt if there has been much humbling of ourselves or of our turning from our wicked ways.

We will ignore there is a spiritual war going on that we have little control over. Did the reality of covid-19 push you closer or further away from God? Has it been our test from Satan challenging God on what we would do if he could strike fear all over the world at the same time?

What we would do if we lost our jobs, our money, our dreams, our plans and our security. What would happen to the church if he scattered it out into small bits and pieces?

When Job went through his part 1 Covid-19 experience, he humbled himself, fell to the ground in worship and said, Job 1:21-22 (NIV)

21 and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised." 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

In other words Job is saying, “even though my circumstances might say otherwise, I realize that God is still good.” Job said this having no idea why he had gone through what he went through in the loss of his family, his employees, his businesses and his possessions.

It was not long before he went through his part 2 Covid-19 experience in which Satan severely attacked his body. There were festering sores all over his body. The pain was immense. His friends could barely recognize him. His wife couldn’t get close to him.

This man who had done everything he could to serve God and be an example for others looked like a dead man among the living. He was experiencing collateral damage from a battle raging in the heavens. He had no idea of what he could have done to suffer like this. The target for destruction was the genuineness of Job’s faith and confidence in God. The collateral damage was what it did to Job’s body.