Being the eternal optimist God created me to be, I firmly believe a phoenix rising from the ashes is materializing from the current pandemic. What’s more, every single one of us Christians has to help give this phoenix flight. We owe this to God, and my hope is we don’t let God down.
Our earthly Commander in Chief consistently calls COVID 19 the “INVISIBLE” enemy. His continual verbiage of “INVISIBLE” enemy has even become a common term many other officials and ordinary citizens now use. So be it intentional or unintentional by our President, I see God’s hand intentionally using this virus to prove to all 21st Century, doubting Thomas strugglers that the “INVISIBLE” does exist. “INVISIBLE” is not only possible, it is real. We cannot see the COVID 19 “INVISIBLE” enemy, but its presence is undeniably proven.
The number of people who, before this virus, rejected, and even scorned, the presence of the “INVISIBLE” is massive. To this multitude, the thought of anything “INVISIBLE” actually living was absurd. Well, maybe now their minds might not be so closed and their souls might open.
Since COVID 19 has proven there is an “INVISIBLE” enemy, it is equally dependable to proclaim that there is an “INVISIBLE” God. Currently, we are seeing that the world’s population doesn’t have to see its deadly enemy to believe it exists. This being so, it is parallel to proclaim that neither does all of creation have to see their life giving God for Him to exist.
To the argument that the virus can be visibly captured in a petri dish under a microscope, I counter that God’s presence can be observed without the containment of a petri dish or magnification of a microscope. For, even amidst the death brought by the “INVISIBLE” enemy bursts forth the spring time life created by our “INVISIBLE” God. Every being can look and visibly see this.
God never allows a disaster to strike to drive us away from Him. The wake-up calls He allows are always to bring us back to Him. From Old Testament to present day, mankind can be stiff necked and back turning to both God and our neighbor. Over and over, we currently see the best of humanity reaching out to help each other through this pandemic. We also need to, more directly and more universally, bring ourselves and our fellow mankind back to God. A society now believing the reality of the “INVISIBLE” cracks open the door for Christians to share the reality of not just our, but also their, “INVISIBLE” God.
At the onset of my first post, I expressed this blog is yours and my side by side stroll to the destination of being UPLIFTED IN A BROKEN DOWN WORLD. My pencil may have brought this thought to you, but my prayer is that your voice will bring this message to those who cross your path and are also in need of the Cross of Christianity. The door to belief in the “INVISIBLE” has been unlocked. Let us, as Christians, open it wide.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 