Lockdown 48

Lockdown Day 48 - 13 May 2020

Today, while walking in the most absurd early morning rain, the sticky raindrops (it smelled like ice drops) dotting the road surface, a couple of what ifs surfaced in my thoughts. I wondered what if the world wakes up tomorrow to find the virus is just gone, vanished into thin air with zero new cases, zero deaths and people all over over claiming they are healed. Would people immediately go back to their former way of life? In time, I suppose they probably would, because human nature will not be wiped out. (Nature's laws declare quite candidly that if something can decay it will.) I wonder who will praise God for a virus free world. 🤔

Here's another one: You know how these days everybody is going on about how inportant the internet and LTE/5G is and how one should have a strong online presence? What if tomorrow, the plug gets pulled on the internet? No data, nothing. And then I wondered what if we wake up to the ice age tomorrow morning?

Suddenly a different world overnight (now that sounds familiar!) and resources are not what they seem ... what on earth would we do? 

Fact is, all the above scenarios are entirely possible, the earth already being in a compromised position because of acid rain and pollution not to mention humankind's selfish abuse of resources.

Once home, I am relieved and grateful  beyond measure that all of us are healthy, that I am not living in the ice age and that I can google a recipe in seconds or order food online in minutes, call my Mom on a wireless device and even share a video with her. Yes the world can change in a day, as we have seen. But we still get up, show up and keep on keeping on. 

Tonight, while waiting for our Prez to talk, one question still hovers in the back of my head: 

What if the world comes to an end tomorrow? 

In the end its about where your faith lies and who your Master is. Let's choose to live each day to the full as if it's our last. To grab Christ's hand while He is holding it out to us. He is our Way, Truth and Life. Our way to God the Father, the One who's still got this.