My friend Adam often mentions that he has a curse of clarity upon him. I’m not sure if I share his blessing or have another entirely. Either the world is fuzzy when viewed with sufficient clarity, or I have the curse of ambiguity.
Luke 4:38-39 relates that Simon’s mother in law was ill, so they asked Jesus to heal her. He did so, and she immediately got up and served them. The first time I noticed this it seemed strange that the sick woman was immediately serving. Upon reflection, however, it makes perfect sense.
Most of you are friends and family, so you know that we’ve been moving and unpacking. For the rest of you, well, we’ve been moving and unpacking. 🙂 We’re all…
The more we become like Jesus, the more similar the tactics that our enemy uses will become to those he used against our Lord. Fortunately, Jesus has already overcome our enemy, and provides both the wisdom of His tactics and the strength of the Holy Spirit to ensure that we also will be victorious. Consider the time that Jesus spent in the wilderness fasting and then being tempted by the Devil (Luke 4).
Ultimately, no man is capable of doing anything in the face of the forces of nature that God sets in motion, but the failure to proactively and reactively handle this crisis, and therefore the responsibility for the consequences of that failure, must be placed first upon the individual, largely upon the local governments, less so upon the States, and only slightly upon the Federal Government.
