Sept 8th, 2020: Some Thoughts Over The Long Weekend
This past weekend was the Labour Day long weekend. It is usually
the last break before everyone starts their "new year" for many people.
Schools begin, kids' activity schedules are back in full swing, church
programs start, and all of the shopping and preparation have to be
complete before school. I used to have fun during the Labour weekend
because it is when the CFL has their rivalry games. Needless to say,
this new school year starts with all kinds of worries about Covid-19.
Churches cannot have regular events. Things do not have the same energy
as in previous years. I drove by McMahon Stadium last Friday, and it was
just dead. There is no CFL season this year.
The
common saying we hear often is " nothing is the same". We say that with
some degree of regret and resignation. We prefer things to be
predictable and stay the same. Have we forgotten what happened since
Genesis? Nothing is predictable, and nothing stays the same as for the
human race. We have altered the original plan that God has for us. We
are now witnessing the manifestation of our own broken contradictions.
We have made incredible achievements in many aspects of life and have
experienced unfathomable destruction.
We
sent people to the moon only to discover that we are still orbiting around many aspects of evil. We become more effective in dealing with
various forms of cancer, yet our hearts and our minds are suffering from
cancers of their own. We fight for equal rights for all people and pay
very little attention to what it means to be right with God. We are
willing to take pride in being who we are while trying to condemn and
shame others. We claim that we want to protect the external environment
while allowing ourselves to be polluted by legalizing drugs.
Maybe
COVID-19 has revealed to us that we are in more troubles than we
thought. It has unveiled a lot more about us than we are willing to
acknowledge. Nothing seems to be stable. We tend to blame our
governments, but we forget that we, the people, vote for them. There is
no hero to be seen. When finger-pointing is everywhere and in every
direction, we enter the vortex of blame. Everything can be twisted,
truth and untruth. A vortex can damage many structures. That is what we
have seen in the US as a nation. It is somehow self-combusted.
James 1: 19-20
"Know
this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to
speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the
righteousness of God."
2 Timothy 3: 1-5
"But
understand this, that in the last days there will come times of
difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,
arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness,
but denying its power. Avoid such people. "
