COVIDIZING COMMANDMENTS

 

DECISION MAKING AND THE WILL OF GOD: Covidizing Commandments

Mark [ESV] 8:34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he [Jesus] said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 

  Christian and non-Christian continue to covidize God’s 1^st & 2^nd commandments; divisively setting aside His will that we should love Him / love others.

  COVID prevention has been elevated to the level of a sacred value wrecking marketplaces.   

  Collateral damage is ubiquitous. Deaths and illness physical and emotional due to restrictions imposed or personally embraced. Abstaining from medical examination or treatment. Abuses of power. Economic suffering and losses. Lack of respect for individual choices. Shaming and shunning, and even moral condemnation. Public altercations. Political grasping gymnastics. Advantage seized. Status vanished. Lives adrift. Careers advanced. Careers lost. And let’s not forget the instilling of communal fear.

  Together let us again review God’s will summarized: … [Jesus said] You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself…. (MKJV Mt.22:34-40)

  And if and as needed, we exercise application anew. And let us forget not that COVID presents opportunities to actively share God’s love. (Mt.25:31-46)

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