Kiss The Wave

And many times in Scripture we’re told that our relationship with Christ, is like a walk.

We use that language all the time, we ask one another, “How’s your walk with the Lord?” And our walk with the Lord is based upon agreeing to the terms He’s set. So basically; God says, “Here’s what you need to do… here’s what you need to agree to, if you’re going to walk with Me.” And He tells us different things, like, “Trust Jesus as your Savior and Lord”, “repent of sin”, “be obedient”. And it has to be that way because our God is holy… He is holy, and if we’re going to walk with Him, we can’t be in unrepentant sin, or outright rebellion, and we have to be a new creation in Christ. To be something other than that, and to be in open rebellion and unrepentant sin… that’s going on a different path, a different trail… if we’re in unrepentant sin or rebellion, we’re not going to be able to walk with Christ, and go in the direction He’s going. Plain and simple.

So when Jesus says to us, “Come, walk with me. Come experience the blessings of the Father. Come experience the privileges of the Kingdom. Come experience the joy of salvation, the blessedness of justification, the peace, and protection, and security, and love and contentment of knowing Me and walking with Me.” And we’re like, “That sounds good, what needs to be done?” And Jesus says, “Here’s how that works. First you have to have a saving relationship with Me. You must be born again, and you as you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you walk with Me along this path.” And we go, “Mmmm…. Nah, I think I’ll pass. I like my sin, I like doing what I want. I don’t want to obey God, I don’t want to give up my lifestyle, or my way of doing things.”

God has extended the offer to walk with Him, and the world has rejected the offer.

To use Biblical language, we could say that our nation, and the world has forsaken the Lord, and chased after other gods. We’ve gone after the gods of comfort, and entertainment, and sports, and wealth. Athletes and entertainers, and our jobs become our gods and idols, and we forsake the Lord. And so look at what God has done… no sports, no going to the movies, a huge downturn in the economy. And people say, “Would God actually do that?” Well… that’s exactly what He did in Egypt with the 10 Plagues… every one of those plagues were designed to destroy one of Egypt’s false gods, and false systems of worship, in order to show that our God is the one true, and Sovereign God of the universe. And the Bible tells us that there are two kinds of people in the world… the saved and the lost… and it tells us that God deals with people in two ways, either as under the Law, or as under grace. If you’re not born again, you’re under the Law, and will be dealt with as under the Law, and if you break the Law, you are punished according to the Law, not according to grace.

And we look at this pandemic, and we see that its global in its scale. And it’s strange. So far; the death rate is nowhere near what we saw with Swine Flu, or pandemics of the past, but the worldwide impact it’s had on the economy, and our liberties, and our way of life… or that it’s going to have is staggering. The impact it’s going to have on these particular things and on other things remains to be seen… but I heard one guy say that we haven’t seen this kind of global impact since 9-11, and before that the only thing comparable was WWII… Meaning as far as the world-wide economic impact it’s had, and the fear that it’s caused.