Covid and Sin

 

Covid is a word I hate. It is a word that now describes me. I tested positive for covid last week and am presently quarantining which is really weird because my symptoms are minimal and just about gone now. I feel great but, for the sake of others, I am living in my bedroom.

 

But in this covid experience I see how covid and sin are very much alike.

 

Covid and sin create fear.

 

I have to admit that when I saw the result of the covid test was positive, I felt a moment of fear. Sin causes is to fear God. This is not a godly fear or awe of God but a fear that makes us want to hide from God like Adam and Eve did after they disobeyed Him.

 

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”

 

Sin causes us to live in a spirit of fear but God gives us the ability to live in His power and His love and that gives us self-control.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living not in fear but in the freedom that Jesus gives us.

 

Covid and sin lead to isolation and division.

 

I can’t be around my family or my faith family. I can’t be around any other humans. We have seen the division that covid has caused: mask or no mask or to be vaccinated or not to vaccinated.

 

Sin isolates us from God. In Luke 15 when the shepherd discovered that a sheep was missing, it was isolated from the flock. The Shepherd found the sheep and returned him to the flock because that is where it was safe. We need each other and that is why Jesus created the church.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is loving each other and coming together as God’s people in unity.

 

Covid and sin create guilt.

 

When I found out that I was positive, I called all the people that I had been around and told them. I felt guilt that I had potentially infected them.

 

Sin should make us feel guilty, but when we confess our sins, God forgives us and removes the guilt. Satan tries to keep us feeling guilty and living in that false guilt.

 

Romans 8:1 tells us that those who are in Christ, those who have Jesus as the Savior and Lord of their lives, are under no condemnation and thus no guilt. Our sins have been paid for by Jesus’ death and have been cleansed by His blood so they no longer exist.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is confessing our sins and believing that Jesus is faithful and just and forgives us of our sins and then living in freedom from that guilt.

 

Covid and sin bring long term harm.

 

Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”

 

Covid is not confined to one kind of person or one group. It spreads to all kinds and groups of people. It is a disease that can affect people for months and even leaves lifelong effects.

 

Sin affects all people and it has lifelong and eternal consequences if we don’t admit our sin and repent of it.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is recognizing the seriousness of sin and admitting it and repenting of it so that Jesus can forgive us and cleanse us.

 

Covid and sin cause death.

 

James 1:15 says, “Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”

 

I know several people who have died from covid or the complications from covid.

Everyone who dies physically dies from complications from sin. But because of Jesus, we don’t have to die spiritually.

 

Not everyone of us who gets covid will die and not all who have sinned will die because Jesus died for all of us. If we accept Jesus’ death for our sins and surrender our lives to Him as Savior and Lord, we will receive eternal life.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is receiving Jesus as Lord and receiving eternal life.

 

I am praying for who have covid that they will be healed and restored to full health. I am also praying that God out of His grace will remove covid from the earth.

 

Overcoming Sin and Covid with Jesus

by Raising the Walls and Removing the Walls,

Joe