By Marguerite Wafula
A global lockdown! Crazy, huh? A lockdown is a precautionary measure in response to a threat directly to the school or in the surrounding community. … Depending on the type of lockdown, interior and exterior doors on campus are locked. We’ve heard of a school lockdown, where a delusional individual is attempting to murder innocent youth and adults, then most often proceed to take their own life. No one is allowed to enter or exit the building. Parents may not come to the school during a lockdown. Sadly, this happens way too often. Even more recently, the same violence has escalated to the work place! Today, there is a different type of lockdown which reaches worldwide, some places less effected but nevertheless, troublesome times.
Corona virus it is called. Some say it is just the flu and the media has hyped it up to make it seem luminous. Some also say, it is political! No doubt, whatever the root, lives have been lost, sorry to hear this! People are worried! Concerned for their safety and their children, their family! I believe there is more of a fear of the shutdown of normal life as we are accustomed to! Every precaution has been made, to emphasizing the importance of sanitary habits. Such as washing your hands, covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing or simply staying at home if you feel sick. The governor of some states and the President of the United States has declared state and national emergencies. Schools have been ordered closed for two weeks and sporting events, such as the NBA has suspended it’s season. This has also affected companies, even mega giant, Walmart is closing early these days to allow their workers time to restock items such as, toilet paper that were cleared off the shelves the past few days! Jobs are not employing as much but rather scaling back and creating work from home solutions!
A Bigger Problem!
We have a bigger problem than finding toilet paper or even the spreading of the virus! FEAR! Fear of the unknown and fear of ignorance, the lack of knowledge or information. No one knows how to stop this virus and we think we know how it started. Ignorance is deadly but knowledge is precious. You cannot buy wisdom and understanding. FEAR is not from God! He is not the Author of confusion or fear! But fear comes in not knowing God, who He is and what He is about! When a child is not behaving and they know it and know what they have been doing, they tend to think everyone knows! Certainly God knows and is punishing me! We tend to either want to blame God for not stopping this or think God is putting this on us for the wrong’s we have done in order to teach us a lesson! I don’t believe, either is correct! Why, read on?
Cheer up, He has overcome the world!
The word of God (Bible) tells us that we have an enemy. And while God would be justified to punish us; He is merciful and gracious to us! This enemy is God’s enemy and because God loves us, the enemy hates us too! He will never stop hating God or us! A good passage of scripture for us is today is Psalms 91, says, these plagues are not from God!
Psalms 91: 3, "Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler."
The reference here, snare of the fowler, is a noose for entangling birds. Basically, a trap or trick of the enemy. God is not sending the trap but the enemy has a plan and he uses people! What God sent was His Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross! All viruses, sicknesses and diseases, Jesus took in His body when they whipped Him!
Isaiah 53:5, "by His stripes we are healed!"
The word of God provides every answer to your problem! This wonderful passage of scripture tells us in these troubling times, you can find REST in Him! You an trust God that everything will be alright! He will take GOOD care of you! But you have to trust Him. You can choose to remain fearful or choose to be joyful and peaceful knowing ‘this too shall pass.’ The virus can be spreading over the world but God says because you trust me, I promise this:
Psalms 91:5,6, "You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday."
God tells us in His word, He has overcome everything you will ever face in your life! No plague, will come near you and you can know God will protect you! He says surely (surely – used to emphasize the speaker’s firm belief that what they are saying is true and often their surprise that there is any doubt of this) deliver you! God will deliver you and be with you in trouble. He did not say there would be no problems nor that He would be sending them but on the contrary, that He will be with you and deliver you out of them all! This is good news!
Read His word today and trust Him! This virus will die in Jesus Name!