Abandoned by God?
Hardly! Yet in our moments of human frailty and frustration, we find our hope in a higher power hard to grasp. We struggle to pull up a belief in a God we cannot touch and who seems to ignore our urgent requests for his benevolent helping hand when we need it most.
Is he there, or is he not? Secularists would have us believe we are on our own. Whatever happens, happens. Economies tank because the realities of supply and demand sink economies. Loved ones are lost, their existence blinked away with their final breath, and no reunion is possible. We’re electrical energy charging our protoplasmic bodies, and when the final surge of energy stops, we are no more than fertilizer for another generation.
We want more. Humanity thrives on hope. It’s what keeps many of us going when the light of the morning is occluded by the black clouds of impending disaster.
Genesis 1:1-31 tells us God was there when our world began. He stepped in, worked his “magic,” and the earth came into being. We have no record of an earth without God at the forefront of all that’s possible and all that’s happened. The passage starts with:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
God will also be present when the world concludes its existence in its present form. Revelation 19:11-21 tells of his triumphant presence at the end of all things. His hand is the force that shapes events across our globe, and he decides the fate of every being. This excerpt tells of his majesty:
“Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True…”
Still, we sigh, all that’s good and well, but none of it affects us today. By that, we as humans are choosing to ignore God. In our eyes, the beginning is moot. It’s already happened and doesn’t affect us now. The end? We’ll worry about that when it gets here. Today? It’s party time for the human race.
Again, hardly. As people living in the here and now, we tend to lose track of who God is and how he reacts to us as humanity. He works with us, tries different tactics, and changes his modus operandi when things don’t work out. We see this revealed in Hebrews 1:1-14:
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things…”
It’s that same axiom we’ve heard all our lives. If at first we don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s what God does. When we don’t get answers from God in the way we think we should, he hasn’t abandoned us. He’s not ignoring us. He’s trying something new, something to create a difference in our lives because what he did before didn’t really pan out. Our part is to be receptive to his ever-changing ways, and to trust him to be there for us when our world falls apart. He’ll be the hand that lifts us up. He’s the first thing we should think about every day, our last thought at night, and our ever-present comfort in between. Then and only then, our faith will be easy to find.
Looking at the record of God reveals the magnificence of God. We will be drawn unto him.
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