Dear Friends,
If you read your local newspaper over the last month, you’ve seen headlines about the Coronavirus pandemic, the rising number of people who have tested positive for the disease, and the unprecedented economic impact it has had on the global economy.
As a people looking for answers, we yearn for the silver bullet that will fix all the problems in our world and in our lives. Yet when we go to the Word of God, we find some important things to remember in times like these.
In 2 Chronicles 7:3, Israel acknowledged the goodness of God. In times of prosperity, we are sometimes fooled into believing our own goodness has sustained us.
Providential Problems
God then instructed Solomon in 2 Chronicles 7:12–14 what His people should do in the hard times to come — when drought, infestation and widespread disease ravaged the land. He said, “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their hand.”
The challenge before the people of God is to pray!
A Tale of Two Farmers
There were two farmers who prayed for rain. After a few days went by and nothing happened, one farmer went away disappointed. The other farmer went out and prepared his land to receive the rain. You probably have guessed which farmer had a good crop that year.
Maybe you’re praying for rain, but nothing is happening. You aren’t getting results from your job search. Your health isn’t improving. The money you need isn’t coming in, and you’re growing impatient. You wonder, “Where is God when I need Him?” It may not be in God’s timing to send the rain today or tomorrow — just prepare your field! Humble yourself before God today and seek His will in your life. The floodgates of Heaven will soon open! And by the way, get out your best umbrella, unless you want to be drenched!
Waiting for rain,
Dr. L.W. Edwards
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