“Jesus is bigger than a pandemic, and He is compassionate toward those who are suffering.” - ScarletEH
March 18, 2020
So, how does someone who is always afraid of everything thing deal with the one thing everyone is afraid of everywhere? Here are a few ways God’s Word and God’s gospel have helped me fight fear over the years that will work today as we worry about a disease that’s taking over the globe.I have had to fight for peace my entire life. It seems like I’m wired to exist in fight-or-flight and to doomsday-scenario every possible situation.
When Paul wrote those words to the Philippians, he wasn’t writing as a perfected man who never felt any negative emotions. He just had the right perspective. His goals, his dreams, his eyes were on Jesus. He looked higher than his circumstances. Physical pain and shipwrecks and bondage and violence and turmoil didn’t grip him like it did the non-believer because he was so fixated on eternal things.
“Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!” . Maybe you’re like me, more prone to live in fear, or maybe you’re like the other end of the spectrum and you can’t stop shouting, “CALM DOWN, PEOPLE.” Here’s the thing. Let’s be sensitive.
I can’t look at those words in this world without crying. Jesus is real, you guys. Jesus really loves us. He really has overcome all the broken, sad, scary things that threaten our souls. I say that, not as a perfect Christian who has a perfect life with everything working out, but as a forgiven mess with pains I write about and pains I hide.
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