What Can We Do About COVID-19?

While scientists are scrambling to find a vaccine for this virus, we can take common-sense precautions such as washing our hands and wearing masks. But there are ways we can fight this CCP flu that aren't physical.

Prayer must be our first action. As James 5:16 (BBE) admonishes, "So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working."

And since we aren't completely free to visit each other in person, we have all kinds of technology which lets us communicate and cheer up our siblings in Christ. We can even see each other through various online video conferencing tools.


The Apostle Paul didn't have such luxuries but he could write. After his first letter to the Corinthian church wrought many good changes, he wrote another. In it, he expressed his gladness that a member who had sinned was restored to the fellowship.

Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 7:12 and 13 (BBE), "So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God. So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all."

We don't face the kind of persecution Paul did but we still need to trust Christ and his leadership in our lives. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (BBE) "For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life: Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;"

Whether we live or die, we do both to Christ. Let's not fear this virus but embrace the chance to be lights and encouragers to everyone.

Provided that Christ doesn't return by Saturday, I hope to post about standing for our rights.