Boston, West Texas, Colorado, Columbine, Newtown, India, Iran, Iraq…..
What is God Doing? The following is an excerpt from a daily reflection written by Eugene Peterson. With all that has occurred during the past week, its message is quite fitting.
“What is God doing? He is saving; he is rescuing; he is blessing; he is providing; he is judging; he is healing; he is enlightening. There is a spiritual war in progress, an all-out moral battle. There is evil and cruelty, unhappiness and illness. There is superstition and ignorance, brutality and pain. God is …against all of it. God is for life, love, hope, heaven, and against death, hate, despair and hell. [paraphrased]. There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square foot of space is contested. [The enemy wants it all.]
Just as Jeremiah was chosen as a combatant on God’s side [before his birth], so are we all. No one enters existence as a spectator. We either take up the life to which we have been consecrated, or we traitorously defect from it.” We cannot say, “Hold it. I am not quite ready.
We are at war. Our God is in continuous and energetic battle against the forces of darkness. What is God doing? He is doing everything for his beloved.
This was taken from Eugene Peterson, “Living the Message.” Harper Collins 1996
Loving God with Excellence 