I cannot explain what all has happened since the last post. Some are asking what is going on and I do not have an answer other than it is uprooting everything that we know in society. This virus, this pandemic has caused mass destruction like my generation has never seen before. Some are comparing it to the flu and how the flu kills more than this virus. While this may be true, it is not fair to compare it to the flu. The main reasons of this are because of the unknown. We know the flu and what to do with it. We do not know COVID19. This is why the vast measures have been taken. But this is not what I want to write about.
You see, I am seeing a lot of people getting antsy in their homes (as an extrovert, I am one of those people) and some are even taking to the streets their distress with the government. I even see Christians being a part of this. While we have a right to protest that does not mean we have to exercise it every time something inconveniences us. I am writing today to not say that we should be sheep led to the slaughter, but, instead, sheep under the leadership of God. Are some rights suspended right now, yes. Is it legal, yes, it actually is. I have seen numerous posts on Facebook that say that they can and it's their "God-given right". Let me tell you, the only God-given rights you have are Life and Salvation. That's it. You have a right to live and you have the right to accept the free gift of salvation that cost our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ everything. All the other rights are icing on the cake that men have given us. We, as believers, are to follow man's law, as it says in the Bible, until it tries to supersede God's law. And as of right now, none of God's laws are being overrun. We Americans are so caught up in the idea of Freedom that it is becoming an idol above God. Yes, we are free and I am so grateful to my country for that, however, this freedom will not last. The only freedom that we can enjoy for everlasting is that of God. Once we free in Christ, no other freedom can compare. If we are all caught up in the artificial freedom that the government has given us and that is all that we can think about, then we are no longer free; we are then slaves to the same government that we want to rebel against.
Some are saying that they have right to gather in their church buildings. Why? Why do we need the buildings? The church is not there, it is wherever we go. WE are the Church. The Church has not been canceled but deployed. God has something in store for us and will see us through it all. We can let the government know when they overreach their power (which they have not all the way), but we need to comply as we are called to do in James.
Brothers and Sisters, let us not get caught up with this artificial freedom, but instead with the freedom from God himself. We may hold the truths found in the Constitution to be self evident, but God's are even more evident and are far more truthful than the others. God bless you all.
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