I am writing this at 3:30 am.   It is because I cannot sleep.  Like lots of people, I am troubled by Covid and all of the news and events surrounding it.  But there is a deeper matter.

As a physician, I have spent the last 3 decades trying to keep people healthy and living longer.   But there are still two underlying truths that I cannot change.  We are mortal….and God is sovereign.  Somehow, that message is lost in the way that Covid is being handled and discussed.

The CDC, by way of the media, keeps pounding out the message that we can beat the virus with quarantines, lockdowns, avoiding each other, isolating.  But we have not made a significant impact on the spread of the virus and all the while our infection control measures have led to loneliness, anger, frustration, increased poverty, anxiety, and depression.

In my office practice, personally, I see these problems creating much more significant impact on people than I see serious cases of Covid 19.  The Godless world that we live in has nothing to offer as help for these problems.

I would suggest that what we really need is different.  We were created to be together, to look out for others, to love each other.  We are the most unhappy when we put ourselves first and spend all of our energy trying to save and protect our own selves.  I am not suggesting that we act foolishly.  The virus is not a hoax and we should not be reckless in our movements.   However, in light of the fact that we are mortal and God is sovereign, we should be doing two things differently.

Instead of closing churches,  we should be opening church up even more for much needed days of repentance and prayer.  Whatever happened to calling for days of prayer in times of crisis?  This is what God’s people have done in the past during their hour of need.

Secondly, while we are waiting  on science to come up with a “fix”, we must remember that science is not perfect.  Science gets things wrong all the time.  Science is a constantly changing body of ideas.   In fact many times today’s fact gradually becomes tomorrow’s mishap.  We have leaders who act like they know what is best and issue one edict after another.  They are trying to “follow the science” and change their minds constantly.  This is why what we need is the perfect, all wise, all loving, God who created the world.  

Covid is an infectious disease.  It is behaving like a lot of other infectious diseases.  It can be deadly, as can other infectious diseases.  We should wash our hands.  We should not go to work sick.  We should sterilize surfaces.  We should develop a vaccine.  But we are sinful men and women, who live in a fallen world and Covid is just one more thing.

We are mortal and we are all going to die.  God is sovereign.  God calls us to himself.  I for one, want to live forever with Him.  That can start here on earth, thank God.  I am so grateful that my creator loved me enough to send His Son to die for my sins.  I am so grateful that He is sovereign and not the public officials.  We need leaders who are humble and lead us back to God who knows all things.  All science is just the searching out of what God already knows.  Ignoring God is what will really kill us and make us miserable, not Covid