Monday morning, and nothing has changed. The world is still a mess. The virus is still out there. Schools are still closed. People are still told to stay in. And there is still the need for Christ. Through all this, I would pray that people would see how much they need Jesus Christ as their Savior.
I sit and think about this. I think about how much people need to believe in Christ and yet, how many people don't believe in Him. In the midst of this crisis, people will say, it doesn't matter who you call upon, as long as you call upon some sort of higher power. After all, all these religions are basically the same, they all give people something to look to and that is the point. Call upon something. That is good enough.
Good enough? No it isn't. If you are not calling upon the true God, the triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are not calling upon anything that can save you. Isaiah 45:20b They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep praying to a god that cannot save. And again, 1 Chronicles 16:26 For all gods of the people are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens. And again, Jeremiah 11:12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in their time of their trouble.
Who is the true God? The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, three persons. Who do we turn to? Not to the gods of this world but to Him alone. John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. And again, 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
Then we have a straight forward statement by Jesus Christ: Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 If we want to be heard in our prayers, we need to be praying to the true God, believing in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who alone is the way to salvation.
There is only one God who can help in this time of trouble. Let us turn our hearts from our sinfulness, from the gods of this world, from the gods of our hearts, and turn to the only true God, Jesus Christ. He alone can help. He alone gives comfort. He alone gives peace. He alone saves. He alone is the One who can assure us that we are not alone.
The world is blind in their sinfulness. It cannot give itself sight. Let's proclaim Christ clearly. Let us pray that the Holy Spirit will open the hearts and eyes of those who do not know Jesus.
Amen
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