God's Got This!

After much prayer about this Coronavirus issue, this is my response: I've survived eating dirt pies and Elmer's glue as a kid. I've survived eating raw cookie dough and raw cake batter, hospital food, and week old leftovers! I've survived sleeping laying across the back seat of a car on the way to/from our family vacations during childhood wearing no seat belt, car wrecks, pyelonephritis 3x (I had e-coli embedded in my right kidney, my body was resistant to every antibiotic that could kill it but one, that one should have killed the kidney. The urologist said I could've very well died. The first round took 3 different seven day hospitalizations and the power of prayer to get through it. 2020 - my kidney is 100% fine), food poison (surprisingly not from raw cookie dough or week old leftovers), using public bathrooms and porta potties, falling off bicycles onto pavment wearing no helmet/knee or elbow pads, over a dozen airplane travel rides, walking down bourbon street in New Orleans, a Carnival cruise already in 2020, the Alabama blizzard of '93, the tornado that demolished the Jemison, AL Music Park, sleeping in a lead based painted crib, drinking from a water hose when the water was brown, turning over in a canoe and being stuck in it under water, and being shot at while rolling yards. I've survived the flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, and mycoplasma infections multiple times, the flu shot, all of the baby and childhood vaccines, the previous pandemics of Avian/Bird flu, Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika virus, H1N1, Y2K; I know some I've listed were kind of funny! I've survived living with a missing antibody for almost 36 years (a weakened immune system is what that means), moderate level asthma and chronic bronchitis issues (I guess I should have reason to panic about this Coronavirus issue, but I'm just not), 36 surgeries and being put to sleep every time, 11 admitted hospitalizations for a 2-7 day stay each time, not being able to have a needed picc line to treat infections because I have veins that just randomly branch off so I have had my fair share of blown veins, veins that can't be used anymore because of scar tissue buildup, being on lockdown in a doctor's office because a patient was threatening to shoot the place up, nervous breakdown, suicidal thoughts, school (being made fun of and picked on most of the time because of my weight), college, heartbreak, stupid decisions when I thought I was invisible, the wrath of my daddy (now that is scary), taking more medications than I count the doctor's have given me and never knowing how they would react with each other, a skin cancer scare, a bladder not working for 5 years, breaking out in chronic hives for 5 years with no answers or meds that worked, over 3 years of allergy shots and mouth braces, previously having high blood pressure and other serious health issues that God turned around. I've survived Black Friday shopping, losing a job, losing loved ones, losing friendships, church hurt, being accused of something I didn't do/say, forgiving people who were never sorry, overcoming fear of bad weather, 3 recent rounds of radiation, living unsaved after the age of accountability and living out of God's will (now that is something that needs to cause fear and panic within one's self), being mocked for my faith in Christ. Though I've never seen anything to this degree, I grew up without social media, smart phones, and internet where any and every story can be created and believed by millions whether it's truth or not?! I grew up in a truly God fearing country that is slowly slipping away. The great falling away is here. I know it is. I know what the Bible speaks of. I know what God means when saying that His Holy Remanent will be small in number. I could keep going but I won't. I guess that's why God's given me so much peace regarding this Coronavirus pandemic issue. He's just been too good to me thus far, even when He didn't have to be! Eventually the rapture, because I am ready, or something else will take me home. Until then, my mission and daily goal is too make others aware of who Christ is and who and what He is and means to me! I just choose not to worry or panic or fear. Oh, I can't make you feel what I feel or how I feel, but I can certainly pray for you to receive that same supernatural peace God has given me. Not everyone is a believer of Christ, not everyone lives without fear of the unknown or death and that's truly where the worry and panic sets in. God is all knowing, and He is in complete control through everything up until this world ending and for all eternity, and guess what He is still in control even then! With each passing day, His return only draws closer. I was thinking about Jesus' journey to the cross last night, and gracious if anyone had room to panic and worry He did, but that was one event that couldn't be shut down or stopped or rescheduled for a later date. It had to happen at the exact time it happened. And every stripe He took covered all diseases and viruses and sicknesses. We do need to use common sense and if your health is already compromised, then by all means stay in until this has passed. I feel that point should never be up for debate, nor should a person feel like their faith is weakened or non-existent because he/she decides to take the necessary precautions! Everyone, that is a Christian, is at a different place in their walk with Christ, and faith building tests and trials isn't easy by any means (hello, I've been there more times than I can count), so encourage each other, pray, and keep moving forward! But He is ultimately a God of purpose and still a miracle working God. He's still an on the scene God. This too shall pass! My choice is faith over fear!