Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
Micah 1:16
Shaving the head was an act of mourning before the Lord. When one sees a disaster happening in the land that he loves, that person will mourn for himself and for his loved ones.
Disasters will always have one of two effects in your life: Either you will shake your fist, or you will shave your head. Job’s wife shook her fist at God: “Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9). But Job shaved his head: “Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” (2:10).
The disasters in your life will reveal who you really are. Time and again you see that when a true Christian faces disaster, it proves to be their finest hour. You will hear them saying, “I cannot explain this—the pain of it is still with me, but I have discovered God in a whole new way.”
But you don’t need to wait for a disaster in your own life to draw near to God. Every Christian should go to a funeral at least once a year, and when you are there, you should say, “One day this will be me. One day this will be my wife, my husband.” Then you will know better how to live.
Are you allowing God to speak to you through other peoples’ losses?
