“What If God Should Go On Strike?”
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles, uncategorized
From time to time, we hear of various workers going on strike for whatever reason. Perhaps we need to ask the question, “What if God should go on strike?” The following is a poem by an unknown author, that emphasizes our need for God and His gracious supply of everything we need to sustain life here on earth (Acts 17:24-28; cf. Acts 14:15-17; Colossians 1:12-17; Hebrews 1:1-3).
“How good it is that God above has never gone on strike
Because He was not treated fair in things He didn’t like.
If only once He’d given up and said, “That’s it, I’m through,”
“I’ve had enough of thee on earth, so this is what I’ll do.”“I’ll give my orders to the sun, cut off the heat supply,
And to the moon give no more light and run the oceans dry.
Then just to make things really tough and put the pressure on, Turn off the vital oxygen till every breath is gone.”You know He would be justified, if fairness were the game.
For no one has been more abused or met with more disdain
Than God, and yet he carries on, supplying you and me
With all the favors of His grace, and everything for free.Men say they want a better deal, and so on strike they go,
But what a deal we’ve given God to whom all things we owe.
We don’t care who we hurt to gain the things we like,
But what a mess we’d all be in if God should go on strike.”
Brethren and friends, let us seriously “think” about the words in the above poem, and then humbly bow, being thankful for “every good gift and every perfect gift” that comes from God, the Father, “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
And let us be especially thankful this day (and every day), for the gift of God’s beloved Son (John 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 9:15; cf. Romans 5:1-11; 1 John 4:9-11), through whom our redemption from sin is made possible (Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:11-14; Hebrews 10:11-23).