Trusting God in the Time of a Pandemic

It is natural to be afraid right now; we are in the middle of possible the most deadly disaster of our lifetime. There’s real concern for our own health and safety as well as the health and safety of everyone we know and love.

It’s also natural to wonder why God is letting this happen. It’s natural to question Him, to be uncertain. What is happening to the world is not something that any of us were prepared to deal with. The world coming to a metaphorical halt was not on our calendars.

I’m not going to pretend I have all the answers, either; I really don’t. I wake up some mornings terrified of what is going on in the world right now. I can’t go to sleep some nights because my mind keeps racing through the latest news headlines, which seem to only get grimmer and grimmer. I’m no stranger to worry; I’ve worried all my life. But with the pandemic, my normal levels of worry have gone into overdrive.

But the Bible is clear on this subject: let go, and let God. Or, for a less “tagline” translation, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of…