Coronavirus – responding like Jesus
By Steve Fouch, Christian Medical Fellowship:
Our focus should always be foremost on Christ’s greatest commandments, to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and to love our neighbours as ourselves. (Mark 12:29-30)
Loving God means laying aside fear and anxiety – he is in control. Jesus warned us that things like this would happen and not to be anxious, but to recognise them as signs of creation’s groaning as it awaits his coming.
In the third century AD, as plague swept the cities of the Roman Empire, it was the Christians that stayed and cared for the sick, even for those who had been persecuting them. Sometimes at the cost of their own lives. It changed the world because no-one had ever acted like this before. Are we prepared to be as Christlike in our own response today?
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