Hi and welcome to this Thought of the Day post.
***This post was written around the time where the pandemic was in full force. I still believe we are in uncertain times and things are getting weirder and harder for everyone – cost of living, governments doing whacky things that don’t make sense, figuring out who or what can we trust online with the rise of A.I. and even more deception than humanity has ever experienced…The list goes on…
Faith is still important and even more so than before.
Did you slow down or take some more “down time” than usual during the madness of 2020-2022 lockdowns and the fear that was flying all over the news and in people’s lives?
What else could happen? Who knows!
But what I will decide for myself, and I hope this allows you to think about your own decisions around the virus and other crises going on right now and in the future…
I don’t want to live in fear.
Fear affects our immune systems, it makes them weaker and what we need when there’s something that threatens it, is to strengthen it, and not to make it more prone to catching any illnesses that might be around us in any way (in any time really, but it’s at the forefront of our minds now).
I want to live by faith.
I am a Christian, and have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I speak with Him regularly, and think about Him often. Not as often as I’d liked before all this pandemic stuff started to happen.
I realise this post will not be as popular as others, but I’m sure it will help some people that read this. I will not apologise for my faith, and this period of time has led me to be more bold with my beliefs in the one True God (am sure that last phrase won’t help my case either, what can I do).
The realisation of the things that are happening have made me think that these times require lots of faith and belief in the fact that no matter what happens, God wins in the end.
One of my favourite Bible verses is this one:
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the LORD’s servants, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
I feel it really applies to these times we’re living in. No matter what happens, illness, wars, plagues, riots, etc., won’t succeed. They will try but they will not succeed.
I encourage you to consider whether you want to continue 2020 and onward living in fear, or in faith, whatever shape that might take for you.
Fear or Faith?. Thank you for sharing this thought Karin. This really resonates with me especially with what is happening in the world. I agree that fear does affect our health. We are not only hearing, feeling, but we are seeing the events unfold in our living room, a place where we gather as families, a place of safety and laughter has now become a place where we sit and hesitate to turn on the news channel. What next? but I trust in God who knows all things and I chose not to live in fear, but to live by faith.