Susanna's Rescue: A Crazed Van in a Christmas Parade

Our Lord said that His Church would be so completely taken up with its precedents and preconceptions that when He came it would be “as a thief in the night”; they would not see Him because they were taken up with another point of view.

Today's church around the world, and in particular America, has had every controversy and crisis thrown at her including the proverbial kitchen sink. The unrest and violence over social justice, CRT, BLM, and Antifa; the covid nightmare with deaths, disease, lockdowns, masks, mandates, and dangerous injections; the media's deluge of lies, propaganda, and censorship; and the government's unconstitutional policies that threaten the nation's very existence - just to name a few. The sheer volume of crises has blindsided the church shattering all her precedents and preconceptions of how to cope and be a light for Jesus in a world of tragedy. 

Could it be that this time of crisis is God's way of purging His Bride of political and personal points of view and social "causes" that have so completely taken up the church these last few years?  Will Christ come "as a thief in the night"?  

Or, will we be prepared to see our Lord?  

...the basis of things is not logical, but tragic. Logic and reasoning are only methods of dealing with things as they are; they give no explanation of things as they are.”

We are dealing with suffering and tragedy on a worldwide Biblical scale; and the world's "logic and reasoning" cannot explain why things are happening as they are.  How do you explain the brutal tyranny towards the citizens of Australia?  Or, a crazed van plowing down a Christmas parade in Wisconsin?  Or the tragedy of heart disease and strokes in healthy teenagers who have been injected with an untested substance?   

The world is a tragic place of darkness ruled by the prince of darkness.  We need a Comforter, a Deliverer from this darkness.  So, instead of turning to politicians, pundits, celebrities, social movements and protests, God is calling His weary church to lay down her ever changing opinions, precedents and preconceptions and turn to the comfort of "Our Ultimate Refuge" -  Christ our Savior and Lord. 

Excerpts From: Oswald Chambers. “Our Ultimate Refuge.”