QUARANTINE: 40 Days of Spiritual Health and Hope Week 1 - Getting Goliath Out of Your Head
Powell Butte Christian Church
English - April 26, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MBChristianity Religion & Spirituality sermon church pbcc powell butte christian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A thought came to me this past week. Most of you have heard the 23rd Psalm read at some point – perhaps at a funeral, maybe in a sermon.
What caught my attention this past week was the phrase “He makes me lie down.”
On Sunday, someone shared with me that one perspective of my injury was that it MIGHT have been God’s way of getting my attention during this pandemic, and the quarantine conditions we have been forced into. I guess if you would have asked my wife, before my injury, I wasn’t really slowing down much. I’ve talked about this before: how I have this tendency to go and go and go, to take more on than I should, to not trust others to do the job well enough, etc., etc…
Then go back to Friday, April 10, when in one moment of clumsiness, my world shrank. Falling on my back and cracking one of my vertebrae put me on bed arrest, flat on my back, not being able to do much.
“He makes me lie down.” Ha! NOT funny, God. But necessary.
But necessary.
Could it be that, like me, many of God’s people had found themselves before the pandemic in a place where it was necessary for God to make them lie down?