Blog Post #5

During this coronavirus extravaganza I have learned quite a lot. The main thing I learned is that God can put everything on hold if he wants too. “And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD before the new court and said, “O LORD God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.”” (2 Chronicles 20:6). God also does everything according to his will not ours. He put the whole world on pause and didn’t care that we had school or that it ruined our summer. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (romans 12:2) . It may not always seem like it but God is always on our side. He has a plan for this virus and everything it has affected. We are naturally selfish and never see the big picture. We may feel like our life is the only thing going on but we are part of something way bigger. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. (1 Corinthians 12:26) It isn’t often that one feels like everyone they meet is their brother and sister but that is how God intended it to be. When we give our life to Christ we join a huge family with the whole world. Another thing he has taught me that you can’t just have a relationship with the church. You have to develop a relationship with him by yourself. If you only do it at church you don’t truly don’t have a relationship with him. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:10-13)