Pain is an unwelcome friend.
Nobody likes it when it shows up, but it is often the alarm that tells us something else is wrong.
Without pain we may not got to the doctor before it is too late, and we wouldn’t know to pull our hand out of the fire, or to stop running on a bad knee.
Pandemics are a sharp, undeniable pain we cannot ignore.
They are an alarm for a problem we have learned to live with in ordinary times.
Between 250,000 and 500,000 people around the world die each year from the flu, but somehow we have decided that is acceptable. The sad reality is that the pain hasn’t been bad enough yet to focus the full attention of humanity on solving the problem of this part of nature’s rebellion against God and man. Continue reading “A Kingdom Perspective on the Pandemic–Part 2”