I'm Already Cured!

It is now in the news that there are a number of different existing drugs that are effective against the Corona Virus. Some of these are anti-malarial drugs being re-purposed after testing showed them effective against Corona Virus and others are being re-purposed from their normal use for HIV patients.

As well, others are touting a "cure" for the virus in a medicine that was recently developed in record time. It is only the second time in history that they have declared a cure for ANY virus.

But I'm here to tell you that any person who is in Christ has no real concern for the long-term. What can Corona Virus do to you that death cannot? We are taught in scripture NOT to fear death anymore. Why? It is because Jesus conquered Death in a first-round knockout! There is nothing that Death can do to us, that man can do to us or that Corona Virus can do to us that Jesus has not already taken care of!

“It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:12b-13

Jesus is the Doctor who never lost a patient when they stayed with Him as prescribed! You and I have no fear, we have no worries ... provided we believe God and don't think Him a liar.

"Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, 'For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39

Let There Be Peace in the People of God

Do people see a person at peace or one who is fearful when they see you?

There are certain things I have great difficulty imagining. I can't imagine a believer being tortured by communists for years straight in the most cruel and unimaginable ways and them only ever having a prayer or blessing on their lips for them.

I can't imagine having to face the choice that some believers have had to face. I'm mindful of a Romanian believer whose son was being tortured in front of him and threatened with his son's death if he would not deny Christ. They BOTH died when the son told him, "Don't do it father!"

I can't imagine the inner feelings of the reality that a pride of starving lions are about to be released because you are Nero's scapegoat as a Christian. Many of the Christians who died did so with songs and prayers of praise.

And the world can't imagine a person looking straight into the eyes of a disease with peace and serenity in their eyes and their demeanor. Is that what they are seeing in each of us?

Let's be responsible and prepare for the good or the bad. But remember that there have been Christians stand firmly and with strength against far worse than we are facing. If we remember God in the midst of all of this we are in the midst of how can we not overcome our struggles with peace in our hearts?

"Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground." Hebrews 11:35-38 by John Fields