Encounter Christian Campus Ministry Daily Devotions 2020

April 03 by Ptr. Arnold Pasion

OUR HOPE IN TIMES OF CRISIS

This week, this Gospel song "This Little Child" by Scott Westley Brown (1995) has engulfed my heart and my thoughts. As I read and internalized the lyrics; it made me wonder and led me to ask this question: "Is it possible that God has to stop everything (through this Covid-19) for you/us to listen and realize that you and me and all humanity are heading toward a point of no return-toward damnation?

This generation is at the tipping point and unless REPENTANCE happens in an epic-Ninevite-like (Jonah 3) proportion, this generation will be lost. Verse 2 of the song describes what this generation really looks like. "Every man for himself" seems to be the prevailing attitude of every individual, believer or not. It happened in the past that a whole generation was lost and it can happen again. But by God's grace, my fervent prayer is "it won't happen in our generation." Every believer and everyone who claim to belong to God has a responsibility to NOT make this happen.

One lesson I have learned through this (worldwide) crisis is God's relentless love. He will do everything; use every possible means; go the next hundred miles and across the universe to talk to you and me; to let me and you know how much He loves and cares for you and me. God is not an attention-seeking god. He is God who loves relentlessly "not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).

That love, my brothers and sisters, is our only hope and it is embodied in Jesus Christ. Would you take the time learn more about that love and help someone to have that love too. This is the best time to do it. God bless.

Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-6; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

This Little Child
1995 by Scott Wesley Brown
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Verse 1
Who would of tho't that long ago, So very far away
A little child would be born And in a manger laid
And who would have tho't this little child Was born the King of kings
The Son of just a carpenter But for whom the angels sing
And who would have tho't that as He grew And with other children played
This child with whom they laughed and sang; Would die for them some day
And who would have tho't this little child Could make a blind man see
Feed the hungry make rich the poor And set the sinner free
Oh who would have tho't this little child Was who the prophets said
Would take away the sins of man And rise up from the dead

Chorus 1
O I believe and I will always sing; This little child is the King
O I believe and I will always sing; This little child; He is the King of kings

Verse 2
Many years have come and gone Yet this world remains the same
Empires have been built and fallen; Only time has made a change
Nation against nation, Brother against brother
Men so filled with hatred; Killing one another
And over half the world is starving; While our banner of decency is torn
Debating over disarmament; Killing children before they're born
And fools who march to win the right; To justify their sin
Oh ev'ry nation that has fallen; Has fallen from within
Yet in the midst of this darkness; There is a hope a light that burns
This little child the King of kings, Some day will return

Chorus 2
And I believe and I will always sing; This little child is the King
And I believe and I will always sing; This little child; He is the King of kings

Verse 3
And who would have tho't this little child Is who the prophets said
Will return to judge this world-The living and the dead
Oh can't you see that long ago So very far away
This little child our only hope Was born a King that day
And can't you see that here and now; As unto Him we pray
This Lord of lords who is our hope Is still King today
He's still the King today