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<\/p>\nAll this social distancing we’re urged to do because of COVID-19 is like being trapped in a bizarre game of cooties – the adult edition.<\/p>\n
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Don’t touch anything or anyone but if you do, wash your hands before and after touching whatever it is you’ve touched – either accidentally or on purpose because – COVID cooties.<\/p>\n
Keep a recommended six-foot distance from anyone else, and for heaven’s sake, DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE or you may, like Lot’s wife<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, turn into a pillar of salt.<\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong, the danger of COVID-19 transmissions is certainly real, but…I’m skeptical that the hysterical, hyperbolic daily reporting<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and projection of fatalities in the hundreds of thousands isn’t.\u00a0 But that’s a post for another day.<\/p>\n Today we want to share some thoughts about faith amidst all this fear, chaos and uncertainty.<\/p>\n As Christians, we are called upon to not only talk up our faith, but to live it in our daily lives.\u00a0 I Colossians 1:10 says we should bear fruit in every good work so we can grow in the knowledge of the Lord. \u00a0<\/p>\n This “fruit” isn’t the oranges and bananas prompting all the handwashing mentioned earlier, but rather our attitude, our action and our approach with others.<\/p>\n We are to be examples for others in all things, including how we handle adversity like sickness, financial setbacks, career disappointments<\/span><\/strong><\/a> – even death.<\/p>\n As we are becoming painfully aware on a daily basis, COVID-19 can include all the above.<\/p>\n The COVID-19 virus understandably has millions of Americans worried, but if we as a nation panic and hyperventilate like the breathless media hopes we will because it makes good prime time footage, we aren’t properly living our faith in the God who loves us.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?\u00a0 <\/span>Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?”\u00a0 (Luke 12, 25-26\u00a0 NIV)<\/span><\/p>\n In Isaiah 7:9 the prophet said, “If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.”<\/p>\n Now, today, this minute – is the time for all good Christian men and women to stand up for America by praying for our nation, its leaders, and those affected by the COVID-19 virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panic--300x265.png\")
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