We have bought into
the proposition that everything is natural and random, originating in the
mindlessness of circumstance. Even as
far back as the exodus out of Egypt the presence and activity of God was lost
on the exiting Israelites. When Pharaoh
and his army of charioteers barreled down upon the encamped Israelites, the
half-crazed Hebrews lost their minds over the perceived danger they faced. It was as if they had forgotten altogether
the plagues upon the livestock and the deadly hailstorm and the deaths of the
firstborn; all of which did not touch them but ripped into the Egyptians. If the Israelites could be oblivious to the
hand of God back then given their experience with His work, it is not
unreasonable that this same sociological circumstance would be present today. The mob reacts to every bit and parcel of
circumstance as bad luck, good fortune or the natural outcome of hard work and
ingenuity. The Holy Spirit alone brings
to light the absolute and constant interplay of God within our world. If Israel could stare at the photograph of
God's intervention and see nothing, how likely is it that we will see it. We must rely upon Holy Spirit to part the
curtain as it were and make it so we
recognize all the ways our Lord is working in and among us. Only then can we rest peacefully as we do our
work and make our plans and evaluate our situation. Nothing frustrates our joy more than the
blackened goggles we stretch across our eyes given us by Satan to block out our
discernment of what is really happening.
Satan cannot inhibit our view of God; he can only encourage us to block
Him out of our sight. You must choose to
see God right there with you when you drop the dinner on the floor or your
stocks tumble off the table. You can see
Him if you will look with Holy Spirit fixing your mind on what it should be
noticing. The worst of your day is never
lost in circumstance...it is just as surrounded by angels as the shepherds who
watched their sheep at night. At no
point have you been overtaken by your troubles and hardships...you are in just
as good a place as Israel standing before the Red Sea.
"...It would have been better for us to serve
the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" Exodus 14:12NIV
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