Fears and the answer

Fear of the corona virus is striking at the heart of many people. It has created such a fear that people across the world are panicking. Mass hysteria has struck. People have gone crazy buying TP. Yes, TP. Why? Because someone starting buying a bunch of TP and others thought they might need it, so they started buying it. And the run was on. Stores ran out of TP. People have enough TP to last them for a year or more. Why? Because you might need it and it might not be there? What is next? I can't begin to guess. I wouldn't have thought this would happen.

I stop and begin to think. Maybe that is the wrong thing to do. But I do. Is the Lord using this to get our attention? Think about it. Our nation has gone crazy with, wait for it, SIN! Yes, sin. We have accepted wilder and wilder sinfulness. We have accepted that there is more than just male and female. There is females who are male and males who are female. There are people who are neither of them. What? What kind of sinfulness is this? I know, some might get upset at me for calling this sin, but it is. We are warping what God has made. We are telling God He did it wrong. We are making ourselves God and declaring what we are.

More than that, homosexuality has taken hold as normal. We had a candidate for president who was openly homosexual and it was accepted. This candidate was actually telling the nation what faithfulness in marriage is like. He is faithful in marriage which makes him an expert on marriage. Really? You are being sinful. You are living a sinful life. And you are telling us what is good and right? God must be shaking His head in heaven, especially when Christians begin to listen to folks like this and think that what they say is better than what God has said.

We are calling sin good and calling God's morality wrong. In fact, God's morality is seen as silly, stupid and it is made fun of by many people. Our nation has thrown out the 4th commandment (Honor your father and your mother) and have made it all right to attack those in authority and have no repercussions. We do not arrest those who break the law and those who try to uphold the law are seen as the ones who are wrong.

Is this pandemic a way of the Lord calling us back from our sinfulness? Is the Lord trying to get our attention? Ezekiel 14:6 says, Therefor say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. And again, Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? Ezekiel 33:11 And again, If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Will we repent? Will you repent? This is the question of the day. We acknowledge our sins. We repent of our sins. We pray that the Holy Spirit will assist us to not return to our sins like a dog to its vomit?  The Lord will forgive us, not because of our actions, but because of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. We will be forgiven through Christ.

Will the pandemic end? That, my friends, is only answered by the Lord.