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People are curious. People are wondering.
What sense are we to make of what's going on? Is it just pure happenstance? or is there more going on.
Some people have an uninformed understanding of God and in a situation like this current epidemic, it can be really troubling as to what's going on.

How does the Covid-19 worldwide epidemic play into the reality where a loving God is supposed to be in charge? Does Him sending (or allowing) this plague mean that we're on His bad side?

Okay, I'm not going to innundate this post with questions - lets jump to some answers. The first idea to entertain is this - what is the nature of God?
First and foremost, God's nature is comprised of things that some may find conflicted. He's nature is perfectly merciful, but also perfectly just. He's compassionate, but also has wrath. Much like us when we have children and as much as we want to enjoy them, there also comes times when correcting obedience involves pain.

So, is that what's happening? I can't say. I also don't think that it's imperative that we know definitively that God is doing one thing over another.
As believers, we study His word which is the main way He reveals His nature to us and His plans for us, our world and the future.
We know by His word that God deals with His children differently than He deals with those who are not His. And the quick answer is no, He doesn't seek to unleash wrath on them. He calls to all to turn and repent, that we may all receive the blessings of His compassionate mercy.

Bad things happen because the world is in a fallen, sinful state and it simply reaps what it sows. God's mercy is still evident in that even as bad as things get, they really could (and sometimes should) be worse. The faith and peace of believers rests in the fact that every "bad" thing that happens, is still under God's authority and is only allowed when it serves His purposes to strengthen His people or help people turn toward Him.The Bible is full of affirmations of this.



A day is coming where God will judge the world and set things right. It's clearly spelled out in Scripture. He will deal with the rebellious and bring justice. The biggest choice we can make today is not get overly caught up with why God is doing or allowing world-wide pain and suffering. The real choice is to take each day as evidence of His mercy in giving another opportunity to believe in and confess the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. This will start you down a path to peace in the midst of the storm.

Deuteronomy 30:15-19 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Romans 10:8 - 11 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

In Him,
Cros