These are challenging times that we live in right now during the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the whole world with fear. It is a HIGHLY contagious virus that has already infected more than 690,000 people world wide with over 32,000 fatalities.
The world has seen many pestilences and viruses throughout the millennium like the Bubonic plaque, the Spanish Flu, small pox, Ebola, etc. We live in a fallen world that became that way when the first inhabitants of the planet violated God's principles in the Garden of Eden cf. Genesis 3. And as the Apostle Paul put it in Romans 8:18-23:
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
Notice Paul says the creation has been "groaning as in the pains of childbirth." But there will be a liberation of this creation. It will happen during the coming resurrection when the Lord Jesus returns on the clouds of heaven to issue judgment on this world, while taking his people to reign with him forever.
In the meantime, let us take courage and faith that God is in full control during this time and for all time. He has us in the palm of his hand. He is greater than this pandemic, and he is still in the healing and deliverance business. Take consolation in the solace in the Creator of this universe who knows all of the answers to our questions, and has the solutions to our complex problems. Jesus once said in John 16:33:
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
We who are followers of Jesus Christ can and must remember that our Lord has our back, and that we among all people can be confident of the victory that is ours through the One who conquered sin, disease, and death!
Remember .... GOD WANTS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
