The "Tears of Christ" in a Tumbling 2020

See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people? Jeremiah 9:7

"Lachryma Christi" is a wine of a sweet taste produced from grapes grown on Mt. Vesuvius.  The words literally mean "the tears of Christ".  The symbolism is perfect to those who understand the value of human life to God; it produces the wine that He delights in.

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.  Jeremiah 9:11

The desolation we are witnessing around the world - floods, earthquakes, a pandemic, economic upheaval, social unrest and violent destruction of our cities - all are stirred up by God.  They are undeniable proof that God is God and a holy God.  If we make our home on the sides of a volcano, desolation may come at any minute.  2020 is definitely a clear reminder of the continual interference of God in human life; that is the mental atmosphere of the Bible.  

Outside the Bible, people talk about the general presence of God's peace and love in the world - everything going on quietly and calmly and in order.  2020 has forced us to believe otherwise - everything goes on tempestuously and crushingly; that is God's order - revolution, around Himself as the central Being.

Who is wise enough to understand this?...It is because they have forsaken my law which I have set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.  Jeremiah 9:12-13

Wisdom and enlightenment are not to be found among the "experts", the intellectual elite, or the activist leaders of a social movement.  They have been swept away from right judgment by false teachers in the universities and high courts.  In our own day the proclaimers of the truth are in the minority; most people are too addicted to social media to listen to them.

There are those who say there is no such thing as the supernatural incoming of Jesus Christ, either in history or in the human heart.  Our Lord Jesus Christ is not Someone Who has sprung from human nature by an activist movement or an ideology.  He is Someone Who has come crushing into the human nature by the super miracle of the Incarnation.  The supernatural is the only explanation of our lives if we are right with God, and at any moment God may tumble our lives up as He likes.  The question is - Are we willing to let Him?  

We have to maintain our personal relationship to God in Christ Jesus, no matter what happens.  The one thing that is of value to God in a human life is a personal relationship of holiness to God.  Every part of physical, mental, moral life and of Christian work that is not so related will be desolated and burnt as rubbish.