Early in the Pandemic, I had to cancel a large event. I drafted my email, but I couldn’t seem to say the same things everyone else had written in their emails. I couldn’t write “stay safe”. I’ve pondered my hesitance at the phrase many times since. It’s at the bottom of every notice and public communication. What’s my problem?
Have you noticed the fear factor around us of this “new” unseen enemy? People can’t control, track, or fight it. The best we know how to do is hide from it. We cover ourselves and avoid everything so that we will be untouched by this enemy that is lurking everywhere, undetected. It’s amazing to me the responses people have had.
But this is not a new enemy or even a new pandemic. More accurately it’s an old one. An ancient one. We live every day with an enemy who targets us, hunts after us, learning our secrets, discovering our weaknesses. He seeks to destroy us through any means possible. If destruction isn’t possible, he will use shame or guilt to slow us down. The ultimate goal is to use us to spread his disease to others so that they will also be infected and destroyed. Fear. Failure. Death. And let me tell you, he is skilled!
But there is another. One who lives to save me! An Antidote, if you will. He provides life. It doesn’t matter at what stage I am in the process; He can rebirth me. Strange concept – but He truly has the power to make me free from the disease of this unseen but very present enemy. And once He provides me with this new life, He will never leave. The enemy will continue to lurk around, but I am now free from fear. I have the Antidote!
For years I have lived for the purpose of sharing this new life. I am free from fear. Free to live. Why hide from the unseen enemy when I can live with the life giver!
If you are living in fear of this pandemic, I challenge you to ponder who you are afraid of and what you seek. Safety? Life? Freedom? There is only one true source – who is the author of it all – Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:4, Hebrews 13:5, John 10:10, Romans 8:11
“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.”
Romans 8:11
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