Acts of God

https://odb.org/MY/2022/06/12/gods-moves

In legal and corporate parlance, when we use the phrase acts of God, we mean Force Majeure which are unavoidable situations beyond the reasonable control of a party absolving the party from fulfilling its obligations under contract. Force Majeure is however broader and is not limited to only acts of God like natural disasters as it covers things like wars, labour strikes and nowadays pandemic and even trade wars as people begin to redefine the term for their contracts in light of contemporary events.

But in the case of the Feast of the Passover, it is celebrated by the Jews to commensurate the passover by the angel of death over the homes of the Israelites when they were Egyptian slaves. On that day, the angel of death took the life of every first born in every family in Egypt whether human or livestock if they didn’t have the blood of the unblemished lamb at their door posts. The significance of the Passover feast is that it was substitutory death, the unblemished lamb became the substitute for the first born’s life and many years later, Jesus Christ became our substitute Lamb of God in exchange for our eternal life in God. As Christians, we now observe the Holy Communion to remember Jesus’s sacrifice as the Lamb of God as Jesus Himself broke bread with the disciples on the Feast of the Passover and commanded us to do likewise in future to remember Him.

The message this morning is that there are acts of God in history that we celebrate and remember as believers in general but there could be past specific acts of God in our own lives that we want to also celebrate and remember. We want to give thanks to God for His grace and mercy in rescuing us in those times, for vindicating us and for standing up for us. We want to give all glory to God for His miraculous work in our lives, for His goodness. God moves and He moves in miraculous ways. Maybe some people will say those were just coincidences but we know deep within us that God was present amidst our situations. We know that Christ had planned it so meticulously so that all the steps just fell into place so perfectly that as we reflect upon it, we know that it was God’s love for us that made the difference, that made it all possible. We can see the Lord’s fingerprints all over the place! It was His handiwork. When God moves, He moves in a spectacular fashion that we will surely know it is Him and no one else!

When we face crossroads or tough or seemingly impossible situations, not only know that He is with us in all seasons (You are forever in our lives) but know that as we look back to the past acts of God in our lives, we stand assured that there will be more acts of God in future in our lives as we live our lives for Him and for His glory! God is good all the time!