Thankful For What We Know

Good morning friends, 

Earlier this morning, I watched a video from Rev. Donald MacDonald, minister of the Portree Free Church Congregation on the Isle of Skye and current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. In it, he spoke about all the things we don’t know right now as we continue to live in this pandemic. We don’t know: 

• How long this pandemic will last. 
• How effective the vaccine will be. 
• What the lasting impact of the pandemic be on our health, our society, other people, and our churches. 

We have no idea about any of these things and countless others facing us at the moment. However, we do know some very important things. Rev. MacDonald pointed out four things we know, in particular. 

1. We know how a virus behaves. — A virus spreads from person to person and some viruses get really good at it. This coronavirus is one of them. 
2. We know how people behave. — We like to get together and we like to have personal and physical contact. We don’t like rules and restrictions either. 
3. We know that our God is sovereign. — This pandemic hasn’t caused a crisis for him nor has it led him to panic as it has some of us. He sovereignly rules over it as he does everything else. 
4. We know that God knows what we need. — He knows our situation intimately. He knows our fears, our struggles with our health, our emotional (in)stability, our mental health needs, our financial concerns, and our spiritual needs. He also abundantly meets everyone of those needs in ways that you and I will never fully understand. 

So, in the months ahead, let’s resolve to focus on the things we do know and be thankful for the ways in which God has, is presently, and will continue to provide for us in his goodness and grace while continuing to practice proper social distancing to restrict our physical contact with one another. There is great peace in trusting our Lord to be the provider and lover of our souls that he has revealed himself to be. He will carry us through this whole thing in his perfect time. 

You guys have a great day! May God bless you richly in his grace. 

Here’s the link to Rev. MacDonald’s short video, if you’d like to watch it. 

https://youtu.be/OXqJ-3PrcGk

In Christ, 
Clint