There are many lessons we could have and should have learned during this unusual time of lockdown. Families have had more opportunity to spend time together - husbands and wives, parents and children.
Priorities have been questioned; work/life balance and much more.
When the fear of death comes near, all of a sudden, things that were very important in our lives become unimportant (I have seen that myself as a minister at death bed
situations). Most importantly people have been made aware of their own mortality.
The great danger as things return to some kind of normal is that all the valuable lessons that have been learned, the changes made in our lives, revert back to those of before.
Isaiah 43:18-19 tells us:
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert
Here we are reminded not to go back to our old ways. Neither to remember or consider them.
God promises to do “a new thing” away back in the days of the prophet Isaiah.
He still does it today! Question is - do you know it?
Do you feel you have been in a wilderness? The Lord can give you rivers in that desert place. He supplied water to the whole nation of Israel as they left captivity on their journey to the promised land.
It would be tragic to return to our old ways. All of us should come out of this experience with better relationships with our fellow man. Yet much more importantly with a deeper relationship with God.
That relationship comes through putting our trust and faith in His Son - The Lord Jesus Christ. Faith and repentance lead to relationship. A relationship that goes right on into eternity.
Love and blessings from Pastor John and all at GCF.