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Can you now see what an easy life we had before corona virus? That is, most of us in the developed world.  How we grumbled about our lives and wanted more.  Bigger homes, bigger cars, bigger salaries.  Now we are brought up with a huge jolt.  Now we have to start appreciating what we still have.  We might be having to find different sources for our groceries but there is still plenty of food available. Because we are in isolation we are finding the telephone and other technologies are a lifeline in keeping in contact with our friends.  I have a piano pupil.  Obviously I cannot have her for lessons in my house, but it's amazing what we can do on Skype and with time on her hands she is doing more piano practice. Human beings can be very resourceful.  Unfortunately not always in the best ways.  I heard on the radio that a doctor had been mugged at a cash machine.  We human beings are sinful, fallen people and need to turn away from sin and put our trust in Jesus who promises to forgive us if we put our trust in Him. There are two types of sinner, those who are forgiven and grateful to God and those who are not forgiven because they refuse to accept that they are sinners, but even these can be turned around by God.  Which sort are you? You are certainly a sinner, for as certainly as you inherited DNA from your ancestors so you did sin.  All the way back to Adam and Eve who though they knew God was their Creator and knew Him personally that He was most wise and wonderful, still they could not resist disobeying Him.  All they were told was not to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  When there were a myriad of other delicious fruit trees to eat from you would have thought that was not too much to ask. But eat they did and became sinners and passed that sin on to each one of us.

  Now I can hear some of you saying, "Why is she dragging this old story up again?" Well it's got everything to do with our present situation.  In both cases you cannot have a solution until you face the problem, whether it is the problem of sin or the problem of Corona Virus.  If you refuse to recognise the problem of sin you will not come to Jesus for His solution to the problem, the only solution.  And if you refuse to accept that corona virus is among us you will not take precautions to prevent yourself and others being infected.

So which is the bigger problem corona or sin.  Corona can only take your life, but sin can condemn you to the second death.  If you are trusting in Jesus he can take you safely through Corona to eternal life.  Corona cannot rob you of that.

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