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God’s Emergency Room. If you have ever been to an emergency room, you will probably have been disturbed by how calm everyone is. At the height of your anxiety, there seems to be a His power over sin and death of making you fill in forms as though that will somehow calm you down; and in the background, trained people go about their business at a pace that is hopelessly below the urgency levels you expect.
This year you may have had occasion to be in God’s emergency room, presenting Him with imminent disaster and impossible situations that may have engulfed your mind with waves of worry and fear. This is probably a common experience for us all. It reminds me of the story of Jesus in the boat sleeping through the storm.
The Christmas story can equally confound the seeker: At a time when the world was desperately devoid of peace, God’s solution was to send a baby – a pretty underwhelming solution, given the treacherous political era into which He was born. It would take a further thirty-three years for the baby to deliver the peace that God had promised. First on a cross in shame and humiliation. And then in the triumphant defeat of death as his resurrection confirmed His power over sin and death. The scriptures tell us that God’s urgency is not the same as ours. This means we may also underestimate the outcome He is seeking:
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. “ Isaiah 9:6
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