According to the news, this pandemic will bring chaos and disorder to practically all levels of our lives, although the news places more emphasis on physical health and the economy, it will seriously affect the moral and spiritual. The distrust of being infected will keep us away, even from the people we love, with the social distance of infection prevention
Virtually this pandemic will leave us in chaos and disorder. However, if this were to happen, that disorder can be turned into order by the right person, and I sincerely believe that that person is God, he can put in order the most complete disorder in any area of our life. No matter how big and complicated the mess we have, we just have to let his spirit "move" (work) in us.
God can bring order to all this confusion and all this disorder, whether the pandemic has left it, or that we ourselves, for different reasons, have brought disorder into our lives in any of the areas: morally and spiritually , or perhaps economically. God can bring order to our lives and in that way we can have the full and abundant life that He offers us
To put order in the disorder we need to be aware that there is, that is to say that there is disorder, once we are aware it is necessary to find the right person, able to put our life in order, or the area of our life that is in disorder and then submit to the process that this person takes so that our life is ordered.
And this applies, I repeat, not only to the general disorder that the pandemic leaves in the world, I also refer to our personal life, our family life, our church, in our community, in our world, economically, morally, spiritually, emotionally, in all areas of our lives.
God can bring order and of course, This does not happen overnight there is a process that must be followed.
Disorder here we apply it to things that are not in order in our life, in all areas, especially by alterations in our emotions and our feelings, which affect our personal life and our relationships with other people.
Maybe some people already had problems, but the quarantine due to the pandemic highlights all those things that are not in order. Emotions begin to alter individually, and then this affects the couple's relationship and also affects the children, in such a way that in this confinement many families are suffering.
It is also good to emphasize and recognize that there are people who are looking for God these days looking for Peace in their personal life and that has helped them to improve the relationship of couple and family life.
There are also people who are turning away from God, thinking that God is not a good God, that he should remove this pandemic and not let so many people die and when they do not find an explanation they rebel against God. But it is also fair to recognize that in the midst of this uncertainty many believers are drawing closer to God, others who were not believers are seeking answers and refuge in the Bible and in God.
It can apply to the needs that the coronavirus is leaving and as I have already mentioned before, the needs that we have as people, and these needs do not have to be only economic, they can also be affective needs, people who feel a void in their lives, whether they are married or single, because there are gaps that no one can fill, no human person can fill.
We ourselves must be aware of our situation, how we can fill those gaps ourselves, it is good to remember that we were created by God, we are made in his image and likeness, and whenever God is outside of man, whenever man rejects God there will automatically be a void in his life
Now, if that increases the emptiness due to lack of good relationships within or outside the family, at school, society, or in the church, the emptiness will become immensely large, then it is time to remember that it is there God to fill that need with his presence, and also to improve relationships that somehow complement us as people.
Emptiness indicates need for ..., lack of .... It is interesting to see the passage, the chapter as a whole; If we say that in the beginning the earth was empty and in the end it was full of everything that God created, then the empty refers to the fact that God has not yet filled it with everything that He was going to create.
Applying it to our life we can say that a life before God works on it is an empty life and a life after God worked on it is a life full of all the things that enrich it and that God is putting into it.
In a process that lasted 6 days. God filled the earth with all kinds of plants, all kinds of aquatic and terrestrial animals, and birds, and the seasons of the year. He created man in his image and put him on earth as administrator.
Seeing the chapter we realize that it was empty; so we, there is a void of the things that we have already had and now we do not have them and they have left a hole in us, such as the loss of health, loss of friends and family who have died, or who have simply moved away from us for some reason, lack of work and money, among other things. There is a void, a lack of all that God can bring into our lives. He has come so that we may have a full life, an abundant life
The practical application for us here is in regard to things that we cannot see, and therefore cannot understand. The definition of Abyss is a precipice in which you cannot see clearly and you cannot see the bottom either. Thus, many times we find ourselves in an abyss, situations in which we do not understand things and cannot see clearly, therefore we cannot solve them, but God can come and give us light and understanding to be able to get out ahead.
God is always close to us and ready to light our world, so that the darkness vanishes and in that abyss everything that is there can be clearly seen to the bottom, not only the things it contains but that we can see to the bottom. God can help us with his light to illuminate the abyss and darkness that this pandemic is leaving, the abyss and darkness that is already in this world or that will be. The uncertainties we have or will have when all this is over. God can bring light.
It is very interesting that God left the darkness, this balances the life cycles of his creation, day and night, work and rest; physical wear and tear during sleep ... on the other hand, night and day also balance, representing good and evil, difficult times of problems and needs and times of provision and prosperity.
May God bring light to my life, to my family, to my church, to my community, to my nation, to the world, that the things that overwhelm us and that we cannot understand can be separated as the light of darkness, like the day of the night, and then we can see clearly everything difficult that we do not understand now, to be able to handle and solve it.
God used six days to put in order the disorder that was in the earth, to create everything that would fill the void; to bring light and yet in turn leave darkness, to form day and night. When God works he does things infinitely better than we think it could be.
We just have to let him move, that he works on each and every one of the situations we are going through, perhaps the ones that are the best for us, in the long run would be the worst, he knows each of the pieces of the puzzle that is our life, and without a doubt he can put it together perfectly.
God guided the process of bringing a messy, empty, dark, and abysmal land to a completely different land, a land that is a clear testament to his power, wisdom, and love. He created the light, he separated the darkness, he separated the waters, he left dry land, he formed the animals of the sea, those of the earth and those of the heavens, he created plants, of all kinds of plants, those that give flowers and those that give food .
He created order and beauty, he filled the environment with colors and the perfume of plants and flowers, he filled it with the song of birds, the whistling of the air between the trees and he lulled the water of streams; He filled it with the roar of the waves of the seas, and the roar of wild beasts. What an impressive symphony and what a wonderful painting God created in his creation. In what magnificent order he changed the initial disorder in which the earth was.
And the most wonderful thing about all this is that He can also do that with our lives and with everything that this pandemic leaves behind. It's just a matter of letting it work on us. Let us remember the last verse of the chapter of genesis 1, verse 31 and without a doubt this will make us say: “Lord Come and put in order all the disorder that this pandemic has left; or simply put in order all the disorder that has remained, or that I have had for a long time in my life
Rest assured that he will fill your life with light, colors, music, as many wonderful things as he did with his creation. Just let him put order, fill your emptiness and light you up. Just let He works on you.