IT SHOULDN'T COME TO THIS

But it has! When a mother—because she's either a nurse or a doctor—could not hold or hug or kiss her baby and isolate herself from her family even in her own home, because she happens to have tested or treated patients for Covid-19.

This I could not wrap my my mind around. A real heart-breaker.

So heed the warnings, people. Isolation. Social distancing. Strengthen your immune system. Don't be stupid thinking this pesky virus won't hit you. No more lives or relationships should be sacrificed in the altar of this disease which has already killed thousands —some of them you and I know—all over the world.

Apart from doing what we can the best way we can, what are we to do?

Our eyes are on you, Lord. You said, "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. (2 Chro. 7:13-16)

Jesus, you said a time is coming when people will no longer worship in temples made by man. You came in the flesh to save us; sent us the Holy Spirit to dwell in us so we can worship you in Spirit and in truth.

If you and I are indeed "His people," I beg you, let's humble ourselves before Him.

It has come to this, Lord. Forgive us for our self-sufficiency and arrogance. Take control of our lives. And see us through all these. Jesus our eyes are on you.