God's Purpose and Covid-19

The Covid-19 Pandemic

Listening to a radio show one morning, the speaker talked about deep things that I'm not able to articulate as well on this blog but the message rang in my heart and mind for sometime.

And so with that, I have been trying to get to the bottom of why things are the way they are. I needed to do it without speculating but with intent and truth.

Alongside that, I have been trying to make meaning of what God desires of me in this crisis, for it's no ordinary thing to be in such a time.

We are facing a global pandemic that has taken the world by storm and things we never thought could stop, put on hold or change have been stopped, put on hold, and changed!

I mean, we have taken a plunge, things have turned around drastically and radically.

I don’t know how else to emphasize this point but the world has hit a pause button.

I want to know the message God is putting across through this pandemic.

It takes no fool to begin to understand that what's happening must be instigated by a higher power. Who or what could have the power to do such a thing as this? To shake the entire world all at once?’

The Corona Virus

The Grand Revelation

What I expect to happen is that through this crisis, it will bring to the surface things we have been hiding.

This crisis will truly reveal what we are made of. For instance, if we have been using the excuse of lacking time, then this time will reveal whether it was a lack of time or a lack of discipline.

Hence this crisis is doing what we couldn’t have done or had the discipline to do if we continued with“Business as usual”.

For a while now, I have been sensing a need to go back to asking the elementary questions. The kind that goes back to the beginning, seeking the ancient paths, revisiting the drawing board.

And I think this crisis has presented us a need to go back to the basics of life.

It has offered us an incredible opportunity to reflect. All manner of distractions have been removed, and all demands have been quieted.

It’s as if God hit the reset button and caused us to start anew. As if it was “In the beginning” once again.

A Time to Reprioritize

I believe that we had been covered in so many layers that we forgot what God had originally designed life to be like.

I believe that God wants His people to go back and re-prioritize life. We had our priorities out of order. I had my priorities out of order.

We turned to be servants of men and systems rather than servants of God. It appeared that all else must happen but spending time with God was okay to be compromised.

We have served traditions very faithfully and forgotten what it means to be a child of God, and what it means to be in a relationship with Him.

When was the last time, you had quality time with God? I think God has created time for us now to do what is the most important thing.

God has availed time for you and me, He has allowed a crisis to come upon us. What we do with that, is entirely upon us.

For me, this is a time to re-evaluate my life. What I have put at the forefront against what God desired to be as my forefront. It’s a time to repent and by repent here I mean to turn around and change course.

It’s a time for me to change the direction I was taking, and take up the direction God ordained for me.

That’s the only way my life will have meaning and be content from the inside out and I want to safely assume it could be the same thing God wants for you.

It’s a time for deep contemplation, meditation, and to seek for truth. The truth of living life in the way God intended.

Enough

I don’t know about you but I have had enough of superficiality, enough of programs, things-to-do, meeting deadlines to meet a goal that does not seem to be satisfied no matter how much work and time we put into it.

I want to come to a place of truly living my life in the way it was meant to be. I don't want to miss God’s intentions for me during this time of crisis.

I bet my greatest fear is to come out of this unchanged. I desire a shift in my thinking, a shift in the way I view life, a shift in what I have known so that I can possess what God has in store for me.

What’s your goal in all of this?

Until then, keep faith, hope, and love alive.