The stores are out of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bleach, and other cleaning supplies. The media headlines cry out to us to inflame our emotions and create anxiety. There is some calm in the midst of the turmoil as well. We are simply encouraged (as we should be) by leadership and experts to wash our hands, stay home if we are sick. Be wise and take necessary precautions.
We are focused on our physical well-being with responses running from “It won’t affect me! I still want to have fun and this virus is getting in my way!” to “I am hoarding all I can to prepare for the worst.”
My questions to you are this: Are we as concerned for our eternal health as we are our physical health? Are we telling ourselves that eternity won’t affect us? That we still will have our fun and expect no consequences?
God desires to preserve us for eternity. So much so, He sacrificed His Son for us, that we may live. John 3:16
~ Take it to heart ~
May you consider your soul’s health in the midst of the world’s health crisis. For when we do, we know God and His love for us. Read Paul’s prayer for YOU… in fact, pray this prayer to the living God! When you pray, put your own name in place of “you”, “your”, “we”, “us”.
Ephesians 3:14-21 (NIV) “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
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