Where Is God

Where Is God?
In this world wide virus pandemic
Fear and panic are epidemic
The world is asking in all this:
‘Where is God in the midst of crisis?’
I guess we never stopped to ask before
While we played and worked and went to the store
We didn’t look or seek or ask where God was
When we knew we could control every buzz
It wasn’t until all of life came to a hault
And there are no answers and no one is at fault.
It wasn’t until we realized it was an incurable disease
One that stole your breath and made you cough, gag and wheeze.
Now cancer is one thing, STDs and AIDs are old hat
But a virus that is unseen, resilient and deadly at that
One that suffocates and takes the very breath from your lungs
There is no hope for life once the end of breathing has begun
Your future is gone, all your dreams are dead
When the air you breathe doesn’t fill you with life but dread

What is breath? What is the air that we breathe?
Why do we require Oxygen to fill our lungs in reprieve?
Usually, nobody thinks or takes a second thought
To what sustains their very life that cannot be bought
When life is good and no obstructions are around
Air is not a commodity it is fresh, free and in great abound
When something is paid no mind in its plenty
It is taken for granted and ignored in basic efficiency.
So is the air we have fully ignored?
Or is it the God that gave it and even abundantly poured
Each breath, every day into every soul’s mortal frame
From the beginning until death devours, and its victims reclaim

Where is God? Are you serious right now?
He is in every moment, past, future and now.
He is in every moving and living creature
He has stamped his brand on every colorful feature.
All of life comes from Him, all that is good
Is from the Father of Lights who has graciously withstood
Every slight, every denial, every drop of disdain
Spewed at his face in total dishonor of His Name
Every curse, every slander, each defiance 
Promoted by pride and self-reliance
Is to defy the breath that we breathe will do as he intended
We will live and die and be our own gods until life is suspended
God is here. He has come to make a way for us
To be restored to his loving embrace and welcoming chorus
Jesus came as an offering, to give God a face
He opened the floodgates of all God’s bounteous grace 
With his perfect life, death and resurrection
He met every requirement of God’s demands of perfection
He took onto himself all that was due our sinful shame
He bore all our sin on himself and the wrath of God in his frame
He is not far from any one of us, right here where we are
He is not dead nor is he unaware of our pain or scars
He is the Balm that heals, makes new and gives life
He is the hope of every soul, the comfort in strife

In the beginning God made man in His image
With the rest of creation, Man received a privilege
To relate with God in an intimate way
And bear his resemblance that no one could say
We fell out of the sky and boom we are here
And we do what we want, year after year
‘Til we die and disappear with no consequences
Are we so arrogant to think we are what we are with no outer influences?
God breathed into that first man he made out of dust
The Breath of Life, and he lived acknowledged God as he must

Where is God in this world wide suffering and fear?
He is calling to each of you, begging you to hear
How much that He loves you and wants you to look up
For from Him alone can we have strength not to give up
What you need is not within you or around 
It is only in Jesus the Christ that its found
God is everywhere and everything that you need
Please, O please won’t you take heed
Bow a knee to your Maker and lay down your will
God will NOT reject you, but will overwhelm you to over fill
Ask Jesus to save you, repent of all your sin
Tell Him you want Him to lead you and then
Open the door of your heart and let Him in to refresh
Let Him remake you and give you a new heart of flesh
Your struggles won’t end or even decrease
But your soul will be safe for eternity
And in every trial and stormy gale that comes against
You will have a Savior and Friend with you to lean into and sense
You are NEVER alone, ever! for one second of time
But God Almighty will be your stronghold and come on a dime
To rescue you, listen and answer all your requests
In Jesus all His promises are AMEN and YES!

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