Fear or Faith?

“And the LORD will take away from you all

sickness, and will afflict you with none of
the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have
known, but will lay them on all those who hate
you. – Deuteronomy 7:15”
More than six months have passed since we first
heard of the coronavirus disease 2019 or what is
more commonly referred to as COVID-19 today.
Health experts and authorities defined COVID-
19 as an infectious disease caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), a new strain of virus first
detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. It is known
to target a person’s respiratory system, which
will cause the infected patients to exhibit
symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of
breath, and in some cases, muscle pain and sore
throat.
However, all of these are just facts of symptoms
which we usually exhibit when we have the flu.
Do we now fear having the flu? No, it is not the
flu nor the virus which we are afraid of.
DEATH. Yes, it is death. People are afraid of
dying. With the increasing number of confirmed
COVID-19 cases in the world comes the
increase in the number of deaths allegedly
caused by the virus. We associate the virus with
death.
But believers, do we have to live in fear? No. In
Christ we have the assurance of life. In John
11:25, Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the
life. He who believes in Me, though he may die,
he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in
Me shall never die.”
Our hope rests not in vaccines but in Christ
Jesus. It is during this time of pandemic that we
have to be steadfast in our faith and become the
living testimony of God’s healing and peace.