In reflecting, this pandemic has seriously affected the global economy. Unemployment is on the rise. Many have lost family members, friends and co-workers, and everyday life has completely been rearranged in most instances. We see more people teleworking as a result of social-distancing precautions; many family-owned establishments have shut down and the familiar entertainment opportunities that once gave us comfort are now reduced.
You ask, “When will things go back to normal?” Yet, who defines normal? Was God pleased with our definition of “normal,” or in His sovereignty has COVID-19 been allowed to prevail as a “wake-up call” to the world? No matter how you choose to reconcile today’s events, humanity has been put on notice.
“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.” (2 Chronicles 7:13-15)