Praise The Lord Beloved!!! ✝️❤️😊
This morning’s question was: Bishop Houston, the Coronavirus, has disturbed many lives and has delivered many tragedies. Does God permit disasters and pandemics to educate us?
Thank you for your outstanding question. 😊
Beloved, the coronavirus season not only installed panic, but it has also created many questions that have been asked many times with many different methods with a diverse outlook.
First, let’s get a clear understanding right now. Disaster, conflict, and panic are direct assaults of Satan, whose total focus is to steal, kill, and destroy any way he can (*1). Persuading us to examine these things and investigate the love of God is just part of Satan’s scheme to suppress, beat down, and torture. When conflicts and catastrophes occur, it’s not a permitted verdict by God that demands reformation, appropriate, or educates the Believer on something.
Isaiah 54:14-15 says, “In righteousness, you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you. Indeed they [oppression, fear, and terror] shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.” I have a clergy associate that has a video clip that displays him in his garage working on a home project without medical gloves or a mask while being quarantine. He demonstrates unprecedented faith. His view of tragedy, pandemic, and other things that try to oppress us, grants us an awesome example of how we, as Christians, should act when true faith in our daily life is applied.
There’s no doubt, oppression, concern, and panic will attempt to invade our mental consciousness. The Word of God is very transparent about that. But it’s just as open that these issues “ARE NOT” from God; they’re not a component of His blueprint or His will. Beloved, God’s not an extremist nor a persecutor.
And realistically, the awful thought that God permits danger to rectify or reprimand us is contradictory to the essential principle of salvation. God placed our immorality, illness, virus, unhappiness, pain, and deprivation on Jesus to redeem us. Jesus was presented to us to carry our unhappiness and anxiety—not to give it to us. The issues the devil created were put on Jesus so we wouldn’t have to endure them.
Beloved, God doesn’t require or acquire the devil to rectify His children!!!
God educates and rectifies us with His Word and the Holy Spirit. That’s the way He deals with us. When you have a chance, read John 16:13, 2 Timothy 3:16, and 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 to see what I’m saying to you up close and personal. God has assigned the Holy Spirit to be the instructor that tutors His children (*2).
In Acts 10:38, we can see God’s mindset described: Jesus “went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.” And He made clear it was the Father in Him who did those good works (*3). It’s preposterous for anyone to envision Jesus harming people!!! So, it makes it even more ridiculous even to propose a thought of our Heavenly Father who (by the way) sent Jesus to represent Him to us?
Now I want you to understand that I understand there are Biblical references to the rage of God. But you must read those references in their framework. God’s not using His anger to educate His people. He’s directing it against those who’ve allowed themselves to become His enemies. (*4). But toward His children, Jesus compared Him to a human father who only gives wonderful presents—not horrible ones—to those who request them (*5).
I pray this answer has helped you. I promote the scriptures I’ve provided. I pray that you’ll meditate on them and allow them to bless you with tranquility and prove the Holy Spirit is in you. Amen? Aaamen. ✝️❤️😊
Probing For Spiritual Answers Cross-Reference Verses
*4. Nahum 1:2 and Romans 1:18
