Just Let Me Die in Peace

Posted byLuther DavisPosted inSigns of the Times

Since early 2020 we have inundated with news and dire predictions of the global COVID pandemic. Each night we sit and watch our televisions waiting in fear as this dreaded disease slowly moves closer to home. With each passing day we become more aware of the signals that our body are sending us. Then it hits, every symptom listed we have except for the fever and our imagination spirals into the horror stories we have been listening to nightly.

Shy of a contamination suit we bundle ourselves up and rush to our Doctor or local Emergency Room to confirm our suspicions. After Triage we have a pretty young nurse enter our room carrying a swab telling us to lean our heads back for a simple nose swab. That’s when we find that her ancestors were members of the Inquisition as we feel the swab entering our brain. For something so contagious why would they have to go so deep for their sample. Holding back tears we wait in our room for the dreaded prognosis.

For many their greatest fear has been realized, others find that they are having a simple allergic reaction to something in the environment. Yet each us are wondering why God allows pandemics to sweep through our lands.

These pandemics like all the other “must needs be” signs are just a tool God uses as He makes ready the Earth for the End Times.


For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matthew 24:7

As the video above shows there have been pandemics stretching all the way back to the time Jesus walked the earth. These are not something new where technology and men’s hubris make exotic illnesses with no known cure releasing them on an unsuspecting population. They are signs that God is at work in our lives today.

Since the Black Plague we have been told to practice basic hygiene to minimize our exposure. Yet we find ourselves time and again falling back into lazy age old habits that increase our risk for the next wave of germs invading our lives.

This week let’s maintain our spiritual development with God seeking Him daily in our lives, but

also let us re access our lives and develop habits that would keep us from contracting these pestilences that God has been sending our way.

Father,

As is my nature I fail you in all areas in my life. Your Word tells me to clean my life up

to be Holy as you are Holy, yet I tend to focus only on the spiritual forgetting that I am

also a physical being. Lord, grant me the will to live a life that is pleasing to You and

one that will show Jesus to other’s around me. For without the natural balance of

following You in my life, life is not worth living. Let the words I speak, actions I

take and compassion I show reflect to the world that my Savior and Lord is the source of

all life and happiness.

Amen

Published by Luther Davis

I'm a 50+ year old country boy raised in southeast Georgia. My dad said "rich people go to school, poor people go to work," I became an electrician in the U.S. Navy. After retiring, I spent 16 years as a construction electrician in North Carolina and Virginia. Across the many sites I worked I had the privilege of defending God and His Word from the mainstream to the exotic, the uneducated to the scholar and back again. With no formal education but a love of God's Word, I self educated myself with each new concept I encountered. As a seeker of truth, I researched each topic using writings from the earliest church fathers to current biblical scholars across denominational lines. I was raised in a evangelical fundamental denomination with a rigid and inflexible view of biblical interpretation. The more I learned I abandoned some of the ideas of my youth. Today I'm back in "God's country" married, working as a security guard. Yet the love I have for God's Word has created a wise man out of a country bumpkin. My only claim to notoriety came I was placed on the "do not call" list of an evangelical cult. Seems they didn't like a nobody using their bible to show them God's truth uncovering their own deceptions and lies.

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