LESSONS FROM HAITI - Part Two

Nothing can separate God’s people from Their God

Rom. 8:35, 39

35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In the middle of the chaos and horror of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, songs of praises began to rise up to God. The devil had expected curses and blasphemies to be rising steadily up to the throne of God.

People sang hymns and songs of praises as they gathered outside tents and on lawn chairs, in the middle of empty streets, in the midst of the dead and heart-breaking damages. One phrase in Creole could be heard repeatedly both inside and outside the hospital walls: “Beni Swa Leternel. Blessed be the Lord.”

If the devil had thought this catastrophe would drive God’s people away in droves from their Lord, he had another think coming.

One of the beautiful lessons taught by the Haiti earthquake is that nothing, however bad, will be able to separate the heart of God’s genuine people from their loving Lord.

This is a fact that has been giving the devil a migraine since sin allowed him to break through into this world and usurp the control of it.

He had assumed, when he caused the first man to fall, that all people of the world would reject their Creator and follow him in his rebellion against the Most High.

If every human being would reject God and follow him – the devil – he would have his sweet revenge. Then he could deride God as a loser and bungler worthy of nothing but contempt.

But if only one human being – just only one human being – refused to be separated from God, the Evil One would not achieve his aim.

He almost achieved his objective during the time of Noah.

Genesis 6

5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

You see, the Evil One managed to get most of the people of the pre-flood period to follow him.

Most. But not all.

There was this problem again! Most people of the world were following him, but not all!

There was the righteous Noah who would not follow him. You can imagine how bad the Bad One must have felt to be thwarted when the achievement of his life-long aim was within sight.

It had always being like this for Satan. He had always failed to get that one last man who would have made him shout in glee:

“Do you see that God? All your men are now mine. Everyone of the dust creatures you value is now mine. Admit it, God, you are a loser! Hand it over to me, Creator of man, I am the winner of this ageless war!”

But he would never be able to rightly say this while that last man is still out of kingdom. Until every man of the world is bowing to him, saying, “You are the one we recognize as our Lord,” the devil will continue to a failure.

But to the devil’s disappointment, at every age, an Abel, an Enoch, a Noah, a Job, an Abraham, a Peter, a Paul, a Girolamo Savonarola, a Martin Luther… always emerged just when he began to think, “This time, at last, victory is certain. I have almost got all these dust creatures into my kingdom.”

Only people who do not really love God allow themselves to be pulled out of the Way to heaven by hardship, disaster, problems and danger. Those who really love the Lord cleaves to Him in spite of every evil thing the devil throws at them (Acts 11:23).

Friend, whatever the case may be, don’t allow yourself to be separated from Jesus, your loving Friend. Don’t give up following the Lord. Don’t be discouraged. Don’t quit serving the Lord. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. Heb 13:5;Mat. 28:20; Isaiah 41:10.

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Raphael Oye Taiwo

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