As a child growing up, I always enjoyed watching the old cowboy
movies from another era with folks like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and the like
playing leading roles. The plots of
those movies were often quite simple:
good vs. evil, good guy vs. bad guy.
It was not hard to figure out
who were the bad guys in most of those movies as the bad guys were most often
the ones wearing the masks (except for that masked man The Lone Ranger, of
course) as they robbed a bank or people on a stage coach.
In the heat of this pandemic in our community and our nation, the
people who wear masks are considered by many to not be bad guys, but good guys. In my state and many communities, it is mandatory
to wear masks when you leave home and go to places to shop or to mail
packages. I have noticed now that many
stores are posting signs encouraging if not requiring their customers to wear
masks.
Have you ever thought about the truth that God wears a mask! That’s right though not the kind of mask
that folks are wearing as they go shopping or head away from home. The purpose of the masks we wear are to protect the wearer and persons they are
around from the threat of COVID-19. Masks
in the operating room protect the patient from disease or infection.
Masks do not only protect and shield; no, they also conceal and
there is a sense that God is masked because we do not fully know and understand
Him. God is creator and we are His
creature. None of us is great and
knowledgeable enough to understand His ways.
As I Corinthians 13 puts it, we are always “staring at a glass darkly”
when it comes to God. The best glimpse
we have into the will and ways of God is through the life, ministry, death, and
resurrection of Christ Jesus. Glory
and praise to our great and mighty God for his love and care for feeble
creatures like us! Have a joy-filled
week.- Pastor Randy Wall
PRAYER : O
God, we humbly admit that we do not completely
understand your way and your will. Help
us to trust more fully in you despite what we do not know and do not understand;
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
No comments:
Post a Comment