Jan 8th, 2022: It is time to consider repentance

 

We are dropping like flies when it comes to the Omicron variant. A friend told me that it looks like it has infected her entire block. My son has also come down with it. Some medical folks use words like "tsunami" to describe what is going on.


I have encountered two various responses to what is happening. One is utterly afraid of the potential total collapse of our hospital because of the number of patients. The other is not worried about the number and let us get sick and somehow beat this virus with our immune system. Both have their scientific bases.


One thing I have decided to do is not to give in to the hypes about this virus. I have decided to start my day with the prayer to affirm God's sovereignty and plan for his people. We need to know that none of these is new to God. Maybe we need to pay attention to the fact that sin has contaminated the whole world. Somehow we have overlooked how far we have strayed away from God. We have been overly preoccupied with this virus and failed to acknowledge that all human calamity exists because of sin. Medical science is not perfect and has its sinful factors within it. Have we ever considered repentance instead of vaccination and seeing what happens?


Please understand that I am not one to ignore science. However, I have become more concerned by how indifferent we are towards sin. I am not free from it, and I will be the first to acknowledge it. The day we believe that we can overcome the pain and the damages of sin on our own attempts, the more we have to encounter the fact that we are living in contempt towards God.


2 Timothy 3: 1-5

"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people."

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