Sunday, March 22, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
This Christian's Look at the Corona Virus Pandemic
I refuse to fear it! I refuse to fear the Corona Virus.
That I harbor some thoughts and realistic concerns and take precautions to protect myself and relatives from falling victim to it, absolutely. Yes. I ain't a stupid crazy brave fool.
That I'm not a scientist and I'm not a physician and I'm ignorant in many of the sciences, absolutely, yes.
Will I bow down in fear of it? Hell, No!
Why not?
Don't I have a body that can get afflicted, sick, bleed, and die?
Yeah. I do.
I do live in this house called my body.
But is my body all of me?
Do I identify myself as a body?
No. I live in a body, but I am a human spirit like all of us are human spirits.
I am a spirit that has a soul. My soul feels, it thinks. It has a will.
What can I control?
I control my thoughts and my thought produce my feelings.
Therefore, I have authority to my thoughts and one day, when the time comes, I will have to give before God, an account of my life, the life I live down here as I life among you all.
And one of the components of this life, that I will have to give account to God for, is my thought life.
And because my thoughts are accountable to God, then they are under my authority.
Does this apply to me only? No. You all are in the same as me. You all too will have to accounts to God for your thought lives too.
What does all this have to do with the Corona Virus?
You and I and everybody else will have to give accounts to God for how you handled your thoughts and feelings before the threat of the Corona Virus. Do you surrender to your fearful thoughts? Do you cower before threats to your health and life?
I can experience feelings of fear. That's not giving in to cowering, fearful thoughts. What do you do with your thoughts before a threat? Do you speak to your threat? Do you rebuke your threat? I do.
Do you ask God to join you, to accompany you as you face this threat, this danger, this challenge to your life and health? If you don't, start to.
I learned to take this attitude from one of Joel Osteen's sermons. Do I agree with all the stuff he says? No, I don't think so. Does Pastor Osteen wear the halo of an angel? I haven't seen it on him. So I don't think he has one. But do I find much of the stuff that he says to be useful in my life, in my relationship with how I perceive God, Jesus Christ?
Yeah, I do. Big Time.
Do I recommend that you give consideration to the thoughts you give yourself over to?
I do. You might as well. Because you're going to judged for them, you might as well work to learn how to rule over them. Will this make Life more bearable for you, even the bad parts?
Yeah. It will.
Would it be useful for you to give yourself over to the spirit of Power, Love, and Sound Mind that God Created you as?
I already did. Easy. No. It was hard. It's taken me 61 years, my whole life, to reconfigure how I will manage this whole thing, this whole thought life.
Was it painful? It gave me relief. Will it give you relief to put in the work to do that in your own life?
I'm only giving you advice that I followed.
That I harbor some thoughts and realistic concerns and take precautions to protect myself and relatives from falling victim to it, absolutely. Yes. I ain't a stupid crazy brave fool.
That I'm not a scientist and I'm not a physician and I'm ignorant in many of the sciences, absolutely, yes.
Will I bow down in fear of it? Hell, No!
Why not?
Don't I have a body that can get afflicted, sick, bleed, and die?
Yeah. I do.
I do live in this house called my body.
But is my body all of me?
Do I identify myself as a body?
No. I live in a body, but I am a human spirit like all of us are human spirits.
I am a spirit that has a soul. My soul feels, it thinks. It has a will.
What can I control?
I control my thoughts and my thought produce my feelings.
Therefore, I have authority to my thoughts and one day, when the time comes, I will have to give before God, an account of my life, the life I live down here as I life among you all.
And one of the components of this life, that I will have to give account to God for, is my thought life.
And because my thoughts are accountable to God, then they are under my authority.
Does this apply to me only? No. You all are in the same as me. You all too will have to accounts to God for your thought lives too.
What does all this have to do with the Corona Virus?
You and I and everybody else will have to give accounts to God for how you handled your thoughts and feelings before the threat of the Corona Virus. Do you surrender to your fearful thoughts? Do you cower before threats to your health and life?
I can experience feelings of fear. That's not giving in to cowering, fearful thoughts. What do you do with your thoughts before a threat? Do you speak to your threat? Do you rebuke your threat? I do.
Do you ask God to join you, to accompany you as you face this threat, this danger, this challenge to your life and health? If you don't, start to.
I learned to take this attitude from one of Joel Osteen's sermons. Do I agree with all the stuff he says? No, I don't think so. Does Pastor Osteen wear the halo of an angel? I haven't seen it on him. So I don't think he has one. But do I find much of the stuff that he says to be useful in my life, in my relationship with how I perceive God, Jesus Christ?
Yeah, I do. Big Time.
Do I recommend that you give consideration to the thoughts you give yourself over to?
I do. You might as well. Because you're going to judged for them, you might as well work to learn how to rule over them. Will this make Life more bearable for you, even the bad parts?
Yeah. It will.
Would it be useful for you to give yourself over to the spirit of Power, Love, and Sound Mind that God Created you as?
I already did. Easy. No. It was hard. It's taken me 61 years, my whole life, to reconfigure how I will manage this whole thing, this whole thought life.
Was it painful? It gave me relief. Will it give you relief to put in the work to do that in your own life?
I'm only giving you advice that I followed.
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