What Should we be Doing Now?

What Should we be Doing Now?

 

32 He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. Daniel 11

The covid-19 pandemic is demanding a lot from the inhabitants of the world. It is a time to know what to do per time to escape with minimal hurts and losses.

The crucial days in the pandemic are those days when it was discovered that the virus is highly contagious and that it can be prevented by social distancing, quarantine and self isolation. I believe those days were the days solutions were found. Whatever happens afterwards depended on how nations and individuals responded to those crucial information.

Unbelief, apathy, excuses, carelessness, selfishness, indecisiveness, fear of the unknown, financial and economic considerations, preservation of convenience etc wouldn't let a lot of nations do what they should do, based on the knowledge already discovered concerning the virus, to prevent it.

It is the same way the world has responded to every major warning in history. The warning of the impending flood in the days of Noah, was spurned and treated like something impossible being propagated by alarmists. It was taken in unbelief and the consequences were terrible, only the household of Noah was saved.

Jesus Christ said that the coming of the Son of man would also be as the days of Noah. They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage and in the merriments, sudden destruction would come.

That Jesus Christ would come like a thief in the night isn't for lack of warning and of prior information but for unbelief. Those who believe in Him won't be caught unaware by His coming. They are in the know and in the light and they are prepared.

1 Thessalonians 5: 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 

3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 

4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 

5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

Jesus Christ didn't hide it from us how the days prior to His coming would look like. Which tells us that He didn't plan it to be a hidden thing. But it will still be hidden to many through unbelief and deliberate lack of knowledge.

We were warned that scoffers would come, asking for where the promise of His coming were written. Wondering why He had not come since the days that the fathers had gone to sleep, deliberately shutting their minds against the long-suffering of God, who wouldn't ordinarily want sinners to perish but to repent and to be saved.

2Peter 3:3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 

4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 

5 For they deliberately overlook this fact...

Deliberately, people overlook scriptural warnings through deliberate ignorance and unbelief, wishing the days of trouble away just because they want to continue their ungodly lifestyles as usual. This disregard to warnings will bring the day of Christ to many as like a thief comes in the night.

So what should we do? We are to take the right actions. Daniel 11:32, a prophecy about events in the last days, show us two kinds of people. 

One set are those who violate the covenants and the others are those who know their God. Those who violate the covenant are those who do despite to the word of God though unbelief and such other negative attitudes. 

Those who know their God are those who took their time to seek out what's on God's mind and to know Him intimately. 

The first set ended up being corrupted by flatteries, they became corroded and decayed through deceitful words that promised them good but that won't deliver, setting them up for destruction. But the other sets went for the word of God, they went for the knowledge of God and they were those who became strong and firm enough to take action. The opposite of corruption is firmness or integrity.

At this time when the situation is sending everyone into the closet including the church, we don't need to be too spiritual to know that God is calling us back into our closets. Our Father, who dwells in secret is calling us to come to Him in our secret places where He dwells, to come into personal and intimate season with Him. This is where we discover Him and know Him at a closer range. And when we know Him and His covenant arrangements, we would be easily immune to satanic and worldly flatteries that corrupt, rather we'll be firm and strong enough, not only to resist but to also to take appropriate actions.

What should we be doing now? We should be seeking to know God more. We should be looking more into His covenants, into His principles and promises. Our faith is strengthened as we look into the mirror of God's word to see what He had planned, what His purposes are, to better understand His principles, and the prophecies that have gone ahead of us so we can pray and position ourselves appropriately.

For instance, the record of Luke of what Jesus Christ said about the end of days in chapter 21 tells us of those things that would happen and how we should respond. Our response won't be of fear but of joy, knowing that the day of our redemption is near. Our response would be to witness to the things He had said, His message to the world.

As we stay indoors, to avoid the spread of the virus, let us see beyond the avoidance of the virus rather into God's deeper purposes, which is basically to seek His face and to become more intimate with Him in order to know Him deeper and deeper.

It'll be a waste of time if all we do is sleep, eat, watch the news, panic, and talk, without seeing the time as an opportunity to know God better and to prepare for all that He has said concerning the future.

Reorganise your schedule to favour your spiritual development and closeness to God like never before. It will impact your life, relationships and businesses when the siege is over.

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