How Long, O Lord

Passage: Psalm 13

Let me begin by stating the obvious.  Covid has defined all our lives for nineteen months now.  It has define us locally, statewide, nationally and internationally.  It has defined our home life, church life, work life, student life, shopping life, health life, vacation life, wedding life, funeral life, political life, news life, and on it goes.

Don’t nearly all our conversations get around to Covid at some point?  It doesn’t matter whether we think it is a public health crisis or a hoax; Covid has defined the lives of all of us for a year and a half, now, and I am convinced it will continue to do so for a long time to come.  In other words, there is no safe place to go where you can escape Covid.

As a brief aside here, I was given us a bit of perspective to how all-consuming we think this Covid crisis has been in all our lives.

I was talking to a member of our church last week who told me how Covid reminds her of living through WWII in Holland.  That consumed their lives daily not for a year or two, but for five years.  The Nazi occupation was all around them every day, the threats, the fear, the deaths, the restrictions of freedoms.  That gives us a little different perspective doesn’t it?  We really have not suffered all that long or all that much.

Perspective changes everything.

Earlier last year I preached several sermons about Covid.  This morning I want to give a different perspective to this crisis and how we as Christians should live and act and speak and respond.  Do we want to live according to our Christian faith or according to our political leanings?

Would you like to have a different way of thinking and talking about this issue?  Is anyone weary of the constant arguing and debating, the faultfinding and name-calling, the division and strife?