Emergency lockdowns, stay home, stay away!
Christmas plans cancelled.
Overflowing hospital ICUs.
Numbers climbing … fast,
Cases, deaths, unemployed, overstressed.
So much pain, so much suffering.
I fear for the hospital workers.
I fear for everyone.
What to do? Want to do something.
I know the answer, but how to convey it, that’s the hard part.
Peace is right there, freedom from stress is so close.
But we too often look the wrong way.
It’s not out there somewhere, not waiting around a corner.
It’s inside, or rather, the Spirit of Jesus is inside, if we believe.
As Paul said, “Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you?” (2 Corinthians 13:5)
Oh dear Jesus, if only more people could feel Your presence within them.
To feel You inside is to feel the magnitude of your love, a love that brings tears.
Not an imagined thing, but real, as real as the tears.
If only they could quiet their worries enough to calm their thoughts and look inside, to You.
Dear Jesus please, so many hungry and hurting souls out there, looking, not finding.
Please dear Spirit, take them in your arms and pull them to you.
If only they will believe.
His Truth Will Set You Free 