Calmness During The Storm
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 NIV
Remain calm! What? How can I remain calm when my world is turned upside down? My taxes are due, my rent to and my source of income has been cut off. My livelihood has been arrested as I am locked in or better said, ordered to stay home for the betterment of the nation. In the past, I could work off some of my stress in the gymnasium, but now I’m confronted with my dilemma moment by moment as I binge on watching Perry Mason.
I could think of many scenarios that would bring home the agony for the moment that we feel as we contend with this escalating outbreak of coronavirus. In one way or another our stress levels are up as the uncertainty of the moment intensifies, causing our anxiety to be off the chart. There’s no way to avoid what comes naturally. These mechanisms to manage stress are components for survival when faced with challenges that threaten us existentially.
In the midst of all that we feel, we can feel safe and secure even amid this cataclysmic defining moment. We can face our current fears and uncertainties through the awareness of God‘s continual presence. The One who never leaves us is the same One who never changes. As we relinquish more and more of ourselves, our concerns and issues into His care, remember that He will never let go of our hand. Because we have chosen what really matters no one can take that away.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35, 37-39 (NIV)
Dr. Bennie T. Henson Sr.
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