FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
WILL ‘LIFE RETURN TO NORMAL’ IF AND WHEN THE COVID VIRUS PANDEMIC ENDS? (Part I)
Before we hastily and perhaps presumptuously answer either YES or NO, we need to “count the cost” by first arming our minds with the principles expressed in the following:
Firstly, no “good news” is truthfully good, no matter how “positive” or “reassuring” it sounds or looks if it is too-good-to-be-true, irrational, too far deep in either extreme ends of the reality spectrum, highly speculative, with many loose ends dangling, sensational, fanatical, is a confirmed conspiracy, contradicts common-sense and causes confusion, anxiety, fear of phantom-like enemies that leads to panic mode decision-making.
Desperation under intense and prolonged duress renders those who are not firmly grounded spiritually to become virtually sitting ducks for any “duck-hunter” to shoot down with hardly any effort or skill. It’s open season in Satan’s enchanted hunting grounds.
In fact, paraphrasing the original saying, many who look strong and unflinching in their faith, will, when this prophesied crisis finally comes, surrender their God-given inalienable, thus ESSENTIAL freedoms and rights in exchange for TEMPORARY safety. As the saying concludes, such compromising cowards do not deserve to enjoy either the inalienable essentials nor the temporary safety and conveniences extended by fellow mortals and sinners who act as though they were Gos in earth.
Remember that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” To fall asleep and fail to be a trustworthy spiritual “watchman in the tower” is suicidal and exposes the helpless and unwary around you to the predation of the “ravenous, night wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Let’s all be be thinkers, with the mind God has given us, not mere reflectors, automaton-like of other men’s ideas and assertions. To be continued tomorrow, God willing. NMF
