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The Purpose of The Pandemic: Jesus is My All



 The world seems to be altering at a pace few can cope with. It was announced recently over seven thousand movie theaters will close worldwide due to Covid. These cinemaplexes will not be reopening, they are selling. It is as if the Coliseum is collapsing, movie theaters have been a staple of comfort and entertainment. Now we are facing a future without them. 


So much change, no more indoor proms, school parties,  aports stadium events. Even Disney announced it is laying off over twenty-eight thousand workers at their parks because of a lack of attendance. Even Disneyland may in foreseeable future be shut down except in Florida. Everyone’s vacations and sense of normalcy is fading into an abyss, it is in this vacuum of dissapontment when people may feel they have nothing anymore, that we need to tell them they can have Jesus. Tne Apostle Paul wrote under the direction of the Holy Spirit these words, “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ.” (Philippians 3:8). For many everything else is getting discarded, entertainments, extravagant vacations and more. The hard work seems to be being done by the pandemic, and it is in these times we can embrace the truth that “Jesus plus nothing is everything,” (see Google pic), that in Christ we have all we need. 


Any idols we’ve had, sports, entertainments, and more are being shaken out of the way so that only the unshakable things remain, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:26-29). This is the good in the middle of these turbulent times that we like an addict are being detoxed from the love of this world 

and the things of it, “For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world..” (1 John 2:16). 


We should not resist this purgation of our hearts, that Christ is removing the shakable things to build the unshakable inside us! He is giving all his saints the chance to root out the spiritual cancers and fleshy motivators through this pandemic. This is a time for revival, to rebuild a close and intimate relationship with The Holy Trinity. To sieze the day and get ready for his Second Coming, “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and who keeps his clothes [that is, stays spiritually ready for the Lord’s return], so that he will not be naked—spiritually unprepared—and men will not see his shame,” (Revelation 16:15) which means to put on Christ, to believe in Him (which saves you Romans 10:9-10) and cloak yourself daily in Him instead, “Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.” (Romans 13:14); this means to stay spiritually ready is to keep believing in Christ tell He comes, standing firm in the faith. For we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alonw (Acts 15:7-11, Philippians 3:9, John 3:16-18). Amen. 

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