Tom Allen

I don't think there's any argument that we live in unprecedented times. Never in my life has anything drawn our nation to a total standstill quite like this. There has never been a time when we honestly have had no idea what will happen tomorrow. We haven't ever been so aware of everything we have taken for granted. Our "normal" has had the rug pulled out from underneath it.  Nothing is normal. Nothing is the same. No one knows where this will take us, how long it will take us to get there or what it will look like. We're not just dealing with something new...we're dealing with something we don't understand, we don't know how to eradicate it, and we absolutely cannot agree on how we should move forward. I've grown weary, as I'm sure you have as well, of this Novel COVID-19 virus. If I am honest, I've grown much more intolerant of the whining, griping, moaning, and ranting over the whole "To mask or not to mask" deba...

These are strange times we live in. Nothing we consider normal seems to be normal anymore. Things we take for granted, we no longer take for granted. There is fear and frustration, and no one seems to agree on what we should or should not do. What we can agree upon is that COVID-19 is not a good thing. It has afflicted millions, killed over 100,000 people, destroyed our economy and put more people out of work than anything since the Great Depression. It's the work of the ENEMY. It's BAD. It's a CURSE. Or is it? When you look in God's Word, you seem to find a pattern. You find that our God is not only great and compassionate but purposeful and intentional. Throughout history, whenever God was about to do something BIG, it was preceded by a time of waiting; A time when He put His people on the shelf. A time when they were required to shelter in place. A time that looked bad on the surface  but ultimately revealed the greatness and glory of His plan and purpose.  ...