John MacArthur made an astute observation when he said that enemy countries could control others with fear. Not a single bullet needs to be fired. since humanity's biggest fear is death, people complied willingly with the WHO's shut-down order.
But death is no terror to us who follow Christ and belong to him. As the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:55 (BBE), "O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?"Why isn't death a terror to us? We go to our eternal home and meet our beloved Lord and Master. As Paul wrote in Philippians 1:21(BBE) about his work for the Lord, "For to me life is Christ and death is profit."
Paul further explained in 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 (BBE) that our spirits will wait in heaven for the resurrection. "For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven. For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven: So that our spirits may not be unclothed. For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life."I realize that there are some theories floating around the Internet about who originated this epidemic. The most credible one I've heard is that a virology lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan allowed the virus to escape. At this point, nobody knows for sure if this was deliberate or an accident.
But we can take heart in that our Lord is with us in all circumstances. If we live, that's good. If we die, that's even better.
If Christ hasn't come by Saturday, I hope to post about a song called You're Not Alone" and how it applies to us Christians.
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