For many years mankind has dealt with external pressures compressing the people on this planet. All of it is contrived but not all by man. For the most part, man via self exaltation or via government exaltation has been the unwitting victim of the ‘shadowy figure’ who works behind the scenes manipulating individuals, groups, governments, churches, politics, cultural et al.
In January 2020 the first ever worldwide viral infection in the age of technology left its place of origin and was transported via planes, trains, and you know the rest. By the time it reached Italy the contagion factor and the health assault factor spawned daily death reports which like a wildfire with the biggest cross wind blew the virus to all points of the globe with one continent in particular the last to be contaminated, Africa. From the beginning of 2020 through all of 2021 and into 2022 the ‘pandemic’ was the single most focus of every human within hearing distance of any device. It drove changes on a global scale unlike any our generation has ever seen. For the first time it gave tangible meaning to the ‘good of the many outweigh the good of the one’ the statement a fictional character from a movie franchise made to another to explain why he was willing to give his own life as the only means to save his crew. That thinking is surely a noble sentiment. In fact, the Bible states “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13
The ‘fear factor’ attached to the virus also changed our innate sense of freedom and choice as it forced conformity through obedience. There is no doubt those who began to conform initially did so out of ignorance because this strange virus seemed to be a huge killer. So, as the ‘authorities’ began to strategize for a one size fits all approach to nip it in the bud, they laid down a blanket of practices to first try and prevent getting or passing the virus from one to another. Wash your hands, distance yourselves from others, stay in your home unless you had to go out for groceries, meds, you know the ‘essentials’, That seemed to put the world populace in a stationary place giving the authorities some much needed breathing room to deal with what they did not know by insisting on what they did know would at least stimy the contagion somewhat. In the U.S. there were so many conflicting and contradicting reports, statements, analysis, if your head wasn’t spinning from being infected it was surely busy moving fast with the minute to minute commentary on the 24/7 cable news, with the daily briefings from all the different heads of state. DEATH was quantified each day with visual graphs, with federal, state, local and global statistics on daily and cumulative deaths from the initial onset of the virus and later by the numbers of people infected mostly as reported by the various healthcare facilities and their caseload.
An interesting phenomenon just went from zero to speed of light in a few short weeks that slowed the sense of time, or at least the passage of it, to a creep. It was like being in a horror movie that seemed to have no end. No amount of popcorn, candy or soda seemed to hasten the end. We sat on our couches glued to the information source day after day, month after month until by midyear 2020 a semblance of a former life began to introduce variety into our lives again. We could step outside without looking both ways for the virus, so long as we wore our masks which of course had a false start early on when they were deemed useless against the virus and then were deemed essential. SIDEBAR: We dried some garlic to grind into powder because everytime we purchased it the powder became a hard lump. While my husband was grinding it in our coffee grinder the cap slipped off a tad and powder flew up in his face. He stopped it. Grabbed his mask from his jacket and resumed again. Unfortunately, there was so much fine dust just outside the cap when he started the grinder a bunch flew up in his face again and guess what WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH HIS MASK like it wasn’t even there! Now, wisdom, or just plain common sense tells you the ground garlic powder is way bigger than the aerosolized virus that is ejected into the air. Imagine if you will, a person who went with the ‘masks are useless’ [the ones everyone was grabbing to wear at first] against the virus as a matter of scientific reality to see the ineffectiveness of the mask, quite by accident. Confirmation that it was sound science.
Society around the world was told the masks would keep granny from catching the disease and dying. You don’t want to kill granny. So, in charitable and sincere obedience, based on the masks stopping the spread to others along with social distancing, people donned a mask. Initially, not knowing was a legitimate reason for wearing the mask. But eventually, the mask mandates dropped and only those who had decided to wear them because of a deep rooted sense they did not want to kill granny remained masked. Comes a huge change in 2021. The miracle of the vaccination. Everyone should get the two initial inoculations because it would keep you from getting the dread virus. However, by then, a year of a contagious virus had pretty much visited most of the populace and they fared and remained living just as actual scientists said they would. Yes, there were too many deaths. Yes, it affected some seriously and with lasting health issues thereafter. That stat however was much smaller than those who got it and got over it within a couple of weeks. Naturally [acquired] immunity intact. The body’s own inoculation. And to be honest, the only inoculation because as it turned out, just about the time a good sized swath of the folks living in the U.S. had received their requisite 2 shots the next new variant of the virus made its way around the world and the vaccinated were getting it. Oops, now a booster was required and no, the shots were not inoculation. Again, OBEDIENCE and FEAR caused masses to get their booster. Then, right on que, the next variant and YEP you guessed it the booster did not stop it. BUT, now the consolation prize is no one is dying from it. Yet, those who got it and hadn’t been vaxxed got over it without dying too. So there’s that. Many who had immunity from having the initial virus and not vaccinated were not getting any of the variants.
So obedience and fear. What about that. Well, there is a sensible side to being conscientious about obedience. For instance, running through a red light without line of sight for cross traffic, not obeying the law to stop, has the potential for deadly consequences but not just to the offender. But a healthy fear of respecting laws and lives is a positive affirmation to the discerning person. The man deemed to be the wisest man on earth during his lifetime, King Solomon recorded in the final chapter of his book called Ecclesiastes the following statement: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.” – Ecc 12:13
For the Christian this pearl of wisdom is a protection: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,” –2 Cor 10:4-5
We know that Christ himself learned obedience: “who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,”--Heb 5:7-9 The right kind of obedience is based on GOD and done not from ‘fear’ as in trembling, but fear as in reverence.
Those Christians who have taken a stand during this viral occupation understand and believes in this statement: “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”-- Heb 13:6
For those who love GOD and want to be obedient to their conscience as they believe it is made new by the Holy Spirit, they understand this pure statement of fact: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love” – 1 John 4:18
Finally, if you are a Christian who is living in obedience to your conscience know this: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”-- 1 Pet 3:15
Lastly, no condemnation is intended in the writing of this article to anyone who truly volunteered to be vaccinated thinking it was going to ease the sense of fear having the virus created in the mind and heart. None whatsoever. We live in a time when people get vaccinations routinely and some annually for any number of reasons. To the extent the shots work and most do we have grown to accept the help of a shot to keep us well. However, this particular vaccination failed to meet the historic record and many have suffered serious side effects while still getting every variant that comes along. No condemnation. However, to get the shot under the guise of keeping granny from dying or doing it for the good of the many and not because you believed it would work is folly. And leads to crippling fear. Check out the newest realization online that people have now lived at a sudden instant of fear beyond the instant into now 24 months of the unrelenting droning of data and statements that tomorrow, holidays, outside gatherings, inside gatherings, are all super spreader events and especially now with evidence the vaccinations in all its iterations is fruitless when it comes to being immune and are now suffering crippling health issues related to stress. I would say, there will no doubt be a time with a version of PVTSD. Time now to truly apprise yourself of some traditional and logical thinking and relax out of the fear that keeps coming at you. GOD HAS THIS! Remember, Job? Purposeful afflictions, long lasting, prayed to return to dust, disenchanted he’d ever been born. Tormented by the Devil personally, by his friends and wife and his own body. But, he always knew there was ONE with the ability to deliver him from his situation. Each of us takes from Job’s experience whatever GOD wants us to understand. Yet, the bottom line, he ended up with a complete family, all his business assets replaced, with more, as if paid with interest, his skin like brand new skin, over a hundred more years to live. Most importantly, an incredible one to one chat with his CREATOR whose interrogation of Job is enlightening and faith building for anyone to read and meditate upon. The virus? This too will pass. When it does, will you have spent time with GOD asking and being asked soul searching questions? Being obedient to GOD is a no brainer. Being one who shows reverence/fear of GOD is inspired rightly. The bottom line? Our freedom and choice comes from GOD not man, not government, not science, not pundits, not commentators who are tapped to say anything to fill the 24/7 news cycle and not fear mongering power thirsty men who work in our world as the puppet of the Devil in the Spirit world!
“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” – 1John 4:8 AMEN.
NOTICE: If you are feeling inclined or feeling led to want Jesus as your Savior, your leader, your King, your source of Peace and Joy but are feeling woefully inadequate, uninformed on how best to get to know HIM, or find yourself at wit’s end because you believe yourself trapped and in need of GOD, please know Jesus stands ready to welcome you with HIS Holy Spirit. Believe these words: “16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. “—John 3:16
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” – Acts 3:19-20
“Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born [a]again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” – John 3:3-8
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