Hidden Veins of Love

Yesterday, National Geographic launched a video on YouTube featuring a documentary on the survivors of the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. It's a 45-minute long video which I'd recommend to anyone. I had other plans at the point in time before I watched the video, but this video so got my attention that I quickly shoved my plans to the side [which weren't necessarily priorities.] Something struck me very deeply.

We so often go about our daily routines, not expecting a thing, until disaster strikes on an ordinary day. Due to the surprise factor, our mere human minds are unable to simultaneously absorb the reality of the situation and gain the insight as to what to do. I've always heard it said that what happens in the temporal world is a reflection of what happens in the spiritual world. Whether that is true or not, I do not know, it does appear to be true. If anyone has any Biblical support on that, I'd be much obliged if you'd share. Anyway - disaster destroys much more than merely what is seen. It also destroys our routines, some of our lives, our happiness, our feelings of security, etc. But on a more positive note, it also destroys our inhibitions, our hatred for others, our false fronts, our selfishness, and even our doubts of the impossible being done.

Why is it that it takes a tragedy in order for reality to emerge? Life problems suddenly become void when disaster strikes. Essentially, everyone becomes the same. The only thing we have on own minds is to fight for life itself, whether it is our own or another's. It isn't uncommon to see someone save the life of his or her worst enemy in this situation. The levels of love and compassion are immensely raised. It is in this environment where even the most shy and introverted person will cry out for help and will put all of his or her trust in a complete stranger off the street.

Why can't we live this way normally?

People experience mixed emotions when they hear of apocalyptic events. For some it may be anger. Why would God do such a thing to destroy innocent lives? There is something not many think about or even realize. God gave life. What's wrong with Him taking it away? We may think that our lives are solely our own, but they're really not. How we live our lives is our own choice, but who are we to not include the One who gave us life in our life? It's thievery.

There is but one thing that God really desires. That is love, which comes in different facets. God wants to be loved by us, He wants us to love others, and He wants us to allow ourselves to be loved by Him. It is very evident in this world today that love is rare. Since God is love, this world is becoming more and more Godless. As that happens, the God who created this world will destroy it because it had nothing to do with Him anymore.

We all want to be loved, but it impossible for us to feel loved unless we love first. If any enemy of ours loved us, we'd feel disgusted, would we not? Their love would mean nothing to us. Our hatred for them blocks out their love, making it void The same goes with God. If we don't love God, we won't even notice His love for us. It's all about mutuality. If you want God to work in your life, then show it by expressing your love for Him at all times. Show it by your lifestyle; For it is written, "The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please Him." (John 8:29)

Hear it from my own human standpoint: be a lover of God and of all people, bar none (no exceptions), before you will be cursed. As this world comes to a conclusion, even as we speak, disaster will strike more and more often, behold, even more intensely than of years past. If those are the only environments when love emerges from us, then that is the environment we will live in. Let us change our wicked ways lest disaster comes to us.

I end this by saying that God only uses disaster as a last resort. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Any child of God has nothing to fear.