Heeding The Call

Wow! How could this happen in our country? So many of us are asking ourselves this question.

I don't blame the government for not being able to control the COLVIN-19 Virus

The world was in trouble long before it arrived. People have forgotten how to pray, given up on prayer and in some cases, never prayed.

I wasn’t raised in a Christian family. Parishioners from a Baptist church showed up at our house one day. They offered to have a bus bring my brothers and me to church and return us home after the service ended. That was all my parents needed to hear. It gave them a break from six noisy children on a Sunday.

Thank God for that church. At eleven years old I accepted Christ as my personal savior.

I didn’t walk in the ways that were pleasing to God until many years later, but the foundation was set.

As I got older I made a lot of poor choices. Some of them very painful. Although looking back, everything I went through gave me a better understanding of what I wanted and what God wanted from me.

Our world has been unfaithful to God through our acts of disobedience for a long time. What made us think we could go on living the way we have and there would not be consequences.

Alcoholism, drugs, pornography, greed, infidelity, on and on. Did you know infidelity applies to Christ as well as spouses and partners? We are cheating God when we stray from His will for us.

When I saw the self-centeredness of our young adults on the beach in Florida during spring break, I shuttered. Even COLVIN-19, as serious as it is, has not detoured them from how they think. I wonder what will happen when our older generation passes away. There are so few millennials that care to practice Christianity. Who will teach the next generation? I’ve tried to talk to my adult children and their friends. They don’t want to hear it. They are of the new age mindset and are blinded to traditional Christian values like so many of this generation.

Only an act of God can change this world. Perhaps this is it. I’m so sorry we have to lose so many precious loved ones in the process. I’m so grateful to the angels on the front lines of this Pandemic who have given so much of themselves to help others. Some have had to live in total isolation from their families.

How can anyone be prepared psychologically for anything like this? 

We can’t. 
What we can do, even if it's for the first time is to turn our eyes to God and pray.

Find a place where you can be alone. Speak out loud to God as if he was right next to you, because he is, in spirit.

Ask Him to forgive you for everything you have ever done that was disobedient in His eyes

(this is sin-it’s recognizing and admitting that we have not lived the life, God, our creator intended for us.)

See yourself free from the deception of the evil one and ask Jesus to come into your heart and dwell there. Believe in Him and He will fill you with His Holy Spirit. That was the prayer I said when I was young. 

Many years later, tired of being in emotional pain, I lit a candle one night. I got on my knees and poured my heart out again. This time I wanted to change. I wanted the pain to go away and I wanted to live.

I started praying every day. It didn’t matter what my circumstances were, I just knew I had to stay on the path of obedience to God. I knew the difference between right and wrong. It was as if I was seeing clearly for the first time. Everything became a choice. I began watching Christian programs. I didn’t go to church, but I needed to hear how to change.

Christian programming offers a diverse selection of speakers. For me it was personal. I needed messages I could identify with. I asked God to put the personalities before me that I could learn from. Their message helped guide me and kept me on track while I continued to pray. They quoted scriptures from the Bible. Eventually, I started reading it as if it were any other book. Although it’s advised to start reading the New Testament, John, Romains. I found the old testament to be very interesting as well. With a sincere desire...I prayed for understanding before I began reading.

 In the NKJV Bible James 1:5 says

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given Him.

In my daily prayers, I ask God for wisdom and understanding. Wisdom is the gift of good judgment, knowledge, common sense, and experience. It’s inner self-awareness of good choices.

Though these are uncertain times and fearful as they may be our hope is in the Lord.

Just as the virus is contagious, so is the remedy. Heed the call our creator is shouting at us and ask someone you know to join you.

If you don’t have a bible you can download the Bible app for free at bible.com

Every day that God allows us to wake-up is another opportunity to grow in the way

He wants us to live.

Stay Home, Be Safe and God Bless to all

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