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Power of the invisible coronavirus
and the invisible God.
So vast and different, yet so powerful.
Perhaps, it is somewhat perpostrous to mention the invisible coronavirus and the invisble God in the same context. What do they have to do with each other? What do they have in common? That is just the point of this discussion and what I propose to show with regard to the power and connection of the invisible coronavirus and the invisible God
As of May 20, 2020 these are facts on the invisible coronavirus pandemic:
{{Worldwide coronavirus cases 5,044,796, Deaths 427,445, Recovered 1,998.665, currently infected patients 2,718.686.
United States coronavrus cases1,579.387. Deaths 94,167, Recovered 364,683.}}
The United States with 5 percent of the world's population has nearly 30 percent of the coronavirus cases and a third of the deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.}} Why?
A caveat regarding the United States' exceptionalism: The United States is the world's number one jailer, with 5 percent of the world's populaton the United States has twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners.
Unfortunately and sadly the number of people who will be infected and die in the future from this coronavirus global plague, will continue to increase. How long will it continue? Nonbody knows. In the meantime, more people will die, some people will live, people in general will be changed forever, affecting a new normal. However, likely the coronavirus will not remain or prevail over man's existence. At some point this invisible monster, as we know it today, will disappear.
The new normal has the potential to be a blessing, not a curse, and a set up not a set back for hmankind. it may produce an evolution in values lived, man's relationships, lessening of man's inhumanity to man, and increase awareness that all humans are vincible, fragile, in need of each other, and caught-up in an inescapable network of mutuality. We may now learn that the survival of humankind depends on what is good for the common good of all, not for haves and not for have-nots, and not more wealth and earth's resouces for the few, at the expense of and less for the masses. These are lessons the conroaravirus have and are teaching greed-instinct man, who may now be compelled to allow his moral and rational mind to become his new master. Never forget, the Titanic Ship, aboarded with some of the world's best paying customers, did sink.
The conoravirus is an invisible phenomenon that is global and powerful. Every nation on earth has experiened its wrath. In a way it is a judgment. It is a plague that humans do not know its source or how to prevent it from afflicting humans. In this respect the coronavirus is like the invisible God.
"No one has ever seen God, but God the
One and Only, who is at the Father's side
has made him known." John 1:18 NIV.
Jesus sent to the earth by God. was visible for a while, less than two score years. After that he, like his Father, became invisible. His invisibleness has not lessened but increased his power on earth. When he ascended as Christ to be at the right hand of his Father, like his Father, he became the invisible Christ. While visible on earth, he said to hiis disciples:
"But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom
the Father will send in my name, will teach
you all things and will remind you of
everything I have said to you." John 14:26 NIV
Jesus made it clear while on earth that his visibleness would become invisibleness on his ascension, which occurred after his resurrection. God, Jesus the Christ and the Holy Spirit are three in one.
While the Trinity is a mystery, it is not to be understood as a triune, that is, three entities. The Trinity is God revealed and manifested in three personalities which is no less one. than one, the invisible power, tour de force in earth and heaven.
There can be little doubt that the coronavirus has come to inform humans of the power of the invisible, hence the geatest power, God the Creator. To reiterate, this is what Jesus meant when he spoke these words,
"And Jesus came and spoke to them,
(his disciples) saying, All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth." Matthew 28:18 KJV
It is possible, even probably, that the appearing of the coronavirus, at this time in the techological age of man, has come to let humans know the power of the invisible and to compel and impel humans to not merely reconnize, but claim, the invisible God for who He/She/It, the Cosmic Being, is both as finite and Infinity.
In the present the coronavirus reminds humans that God, a greater power than the coronavirus, is a greater power than coronavirus, is saying to us:
"So do not fear for I am with you:
do not be dismayed for I am your
God,
I will strengthen you and help you:
I will uphold you with my
righteous right hand."
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Copyright 2020 by Uriah J. Fields
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One thing is certain, many people fear both God and the virus. Especially when something bad happens. It's nice to have a scapegoat. But you are right, the virus does seem to act in a biased fashion towards the weak and the poor.
Ron