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BE ON GUARD
Be on guard. Be watching. Be ready. Be alert.
This lesson came to us as a wake-up call when we were without power for nearly four days. A powerful electrical storm brought down many trees and knocked out the power in many counties in Tennessee.
Recently our closest city, Nashville, and a smaller city nearby were hit with a very powerful tornado which destroyed many homes and businesses in sections of the inner cities.
And now it is amazing to me how quickly the largest and most powerful economy in the world could come to such a sudden, screeching halt all over a sinister thing called COVID-19. Not only the USA economy, but all the world’s economies were wasted.
How easy it was to batten down the hatches, put a halt to all our civil liberties and freedoms, shut down basically all of our economical resources, and put everyone under CDC orders and regulations for the last two months without fully realizing how unbelievably difficult it is to turn the switch back on.
Once you turn the switch off, even for such a short period of time, it’s difficult to turn it fully back on again. The cost of shutting down is enormous and in this country, it amounts to several trillions of dollars, the loss of employment, the shortage of basic household items, and the list never stops.
What can we learn from all of this?
1. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH GOD AT ALL TIMES
During the reign of Darius, he appointed three presidents and 120 princes but gave to Daniel the leadership of them all. King Darius preferred Daniel above all others “because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king sought to set him over the whole realm.”
He was a very busy man in the matters of the kingdom of Babylon, and yet he took time to kneel before His God three times every day. This was his lifestyle. Daniel 6:10 says: “He went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
When we cultivate the daily habit of prayer, we will be far more ready to handle difficulties and traumas that come our way, which they inevitably will. We must also train our children to cultivate the daily habit of prayer as we train them to face life.
Five more points to come.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
