COVID Days

From John Chapter 8

Jesus said to those who believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

How formative will this time be? How much will we be impacted in terms of mental and spiritual and emotional health?

If you go for walks outside, or when you need to go grocery shopping, take some time to notice all of the signs. There are reminders everywhere of the time that we are in. “Stay 6 feet apart”, “Lane closed for physical distancing”. That’s to say nothing of the signs on the shop windows and restaurant windows.

Many of us have never been told so much what is allowed and what is not allowed. So many other people in the world have been controlled constantly by government authority or social authority or religious authority or due to economic constraint. Some people live a great deal of their lives with relative lack of freedom. As we face constraints we can prayerfully imagine what this would be like.

We can also prayerfully imagine freedom.

Today, to consider what it means that in Christ I am free. I will consider the constraints of clock and calendar and COVID. I will ask the Holy Spirit to speak to me about what it means that in Christ, we are free.

Dear Heavenly Father;

Grant that I could consider and know freedom in my Lord Jesus Christ. I too often have the wrong idea of what freedom is. Help me to know a freedom that is so much better and so much more than simply being able to do what I want, when I want. Help me to know the freedom to pray and to hope and to love. I pray for those who face economic or political or social constraint in ways that I have not known. Bless us to know your love for all people.

In Jesus’ name, Amen