The news reports today were all very depressing. The items included General Motors filing for Chapter 11, Air France’s plane being lost at sea with 228 passengers and 12 crew members and the murder of Dr. George Tiller. As I read through other newspapers, I found more and more depressing articles. So what do you do when all in this world seems to be sad and depressing.
As a Christian turning to God and the Scriptures is always a great idea. But is God even interested in our day to day activities? I have to say a confident, YES, to that question. And here is how I got there:
People are made in the image of God. In Genesis 1, we are told that God created man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breathe of life. But in Genesis 3, Adam and Eve, our first parents, would believe the lie of Satan and thus plunge mankind into sin. God was merciful to them in that He provided a way for their sins to be forgiven, but they still had to pay for the consequences of their disobedience. The punishment was expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
For thousands of years, the world was waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ to come. And He did. Not like everyone was excepting. He came with a purpose and that was to take away the sins of the world. On Calvary’s Cross, He did just that. Christ died for the sins of the whole world.
Christ revealed the Father to us. He taught that God knows the number of hairs upon our head, to pray for our daily bread, that God is my great Shepherd and that He knows what we even need before we ever arrive at the point of that need.
So summing up why I believe that God is interested in our day to day activities: I arrive there because I am created in His image, He saw my need to be saved and provided that possibility through the death of Son and knows me more intimately and completely than anyone will ever know me.
I may live in a sin-corrupted world, but I know an All-Powerful God that is bigger than all the world’s problems and sorrows. When there seems to be no encouragement, run into the arms of our Everlasting Father and have a little talk with Jesus!
