Dr. Rick Mandl - September 28, 2020
Trust The Engineer
Devotional Manuscript: Trust The Engineer
Devotional by Dr. Rick Mandl, Monday, September 28, 2020.
Recorded at Eagle Rock Baptist Church in Los Angeles, CA.
Hey church family. Earlier this month we passed a date that marked two anniversaries. Not the kind of anniversaries you celebrate, but rather the kind of anniversaries you wish you could forget. September 11th was the 19th anniversary of that horrible day in 2001 when four jet-liners were hijacked and turned into missiles pointed at American targets. Two months after that terrible morning, then President George W. Bush said, “Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.”
September 11th marked another anniversary. And that is that it was 6 months from the day that the World Health Organization officially declared COVID 19 to be a pandemic. On March 11, the date of that declaration, there were over 118,000 cases of coronavirus around the world. Six months later, that number stands at more than 28 million, with global deaths exceeding 960,000.
At times like this it is good to remember the promises of God. Psalm 34:18 tells us, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.” We need to remind ourselves that His word assures us that, “Yet what we suffer now...[Although it’s real, and although it’s painful...] is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later” (Romans 8:18 NLT). We need to remember that His Word tells us that, “this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17). And if you feel like, you know that that is true, but it still seems a long way off... In the meantime... God invites us “with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).
Thinking about what we’re going through right now, reminded me of the words of Corrie Ten Boom who said, “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” If Corrie Ten Boom, a person who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, including watching her own sister die in a concentration camp, could trust the Engineer... Well my prayer is that you and I can as well. Amen.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.
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