04/20/20 The unknown author of Psalm 137 says “1 By the rivers of Babylon—there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees, 3 for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” 4 How can we sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil?” (CSB) God answered their complaints in Jeremiah 29:5 (NIV): “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.” In other words, “Get to Work; Do NOT Wait until things straighten out! It may be a long time before things get back to ‘normal.’” (OR maybe there’s going to be a NEW normal!)

          Are our churches whining, “When can we get back to church like normal, as we knew it, in our safe, familiar buildings, running our same old programs?” God expects us to BE His people and DO His work, no matter how confusing, uncomfortable and unfamiliar our circumstances seem to be.