So, this is a very interesting story from the Bible. Perhaps it has some relevance to what is happening today. The God of the Bible is referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This particular story is about Jacob. I’ll summarize it and make an application, but you can read the whole story in Genesis 29.
Just to be clear, this is not a religious, right-wing, knee-jerk reaction to the worldliness of the world. I get it. There is light and there is dark, there is music and there is art. Sinners sin, Jesus saves, and God so loved the world. I know. But sometimes, things just need to said.
Perhaps you have heard of the frog and the kettle? Basically, the boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid (lukewarm) water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.
In Luke 17:26-30, Jesus is talking about the kingdom of God. He is speaking about His return and the coming of the Son of Man, and makes reference to that time being like the “days of Noah” and the “days of Lot”.
Jesus isn’t nervous, and He doesn’t want us to be either. Anxiety, worry and fear are viral spirits behind a global soul pandemic with eternal stakes at play. Sure, there is valid concern over the current corona situation, and the confusing way in which the powers that be are spinning the narrative and pushing short term solutions with no real clarity regarding the long term risks.
“Your feet will walk where your prayers have traveled”.
The above phrase has been stirring in our hearts for over one year now. Since 2003, our family has been joining the chorus of specific and fervent prayer for the Middle East. It started with a revelation from the book of Isaiah in chapter nineteen.
