By Staff
It would be presumptuous for anybody to declare exactly what God is doing this instant.
The Apostle Paul declared the greatness and majesty of God with a question in the epistle to the Romans, chapter 11, verse 34: "Who has known the mind of the Lord?" We cannot know the exact mind of God, but He has left us with a slate of activities outlined in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible.
We as humans have a line of thinking that says we need to help God-take up where He leaves off, find areas of need and call His attention to it, etc. A very wise man declared, "Find out what God is doing and join Him."
God is in control, and that control is not limited to mere oversight of myriads of systems in place; it is moment by moment intervention by the Living God of Heaven.
In the Old Testament, Psalm 146 declares what God is doing right now. Verse 6 informs us that God is "the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them."
God is Creator. Scientists are ever discovering what He has made. New species are found and attributed to some process of evolution. That is not so. The complexities of creation and the abundance of God's creatures will never be completely figured out by men.
Psalm 146 continues with what God is doing even in this hour: "He upholds the cause of the oppressed" (verse 7). We look at the suffering in the world and wonder if anybody cares. Yet we know God cares. Verse 7 goes on to say that He "gives food to the hungry." God is the orchestrator of every relief effort in every place. We may be His hands and feet, but He always leads the way. "He sets prisoners free." There has never been a liberation that God did not begin.
Psalms, chapter 146, verse 8, declares "the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous." God is the author of life, the sustainer of life, and the great Healer. What may be declared as the wonders of modern medical science is nothing more than people whose skilled hands and minds are cooperating with God in His work.
Verse 9 of Psalm 146 continues to encourage us that "the LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow."
God's people have always been instructed to care for the stranger or alien. God called Abraham an alien when he lived in Canaan (Genesis 17:8). God protected Abraham and prospered him in Canaan and later gave the land to him and his descendants.
We are instructed in the New Testament book of Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 2, to "not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it."
Orphans and widows are common to every area of the world. God pays special attention to them, and we will do well if we join Him in this activity.
What is God doing right now? He is engaged in everything we would call ministry, redeeming everything ultimately for His glory, including the hearts of men. He started it. It is His idea.
We must always see the world through God's eyes. Could He fix everything right now? Yes, He could, but it seems God deliberately limits Himself in these days to human instrumentality.
When we see things that break our heart and stir us up to action, that is the work of God within us prompting us to get with His program.