One morning not too long ago, a relative and I were discussing the latest news concerning the coronavirus pandemic, and I asked him how he was dealing with it. Looking at him, it was clear he was gripped with fear. He conveyed he was frightened by the many dire medical predictions he’d heard and was fearful he would die if he contracted the disease.
Like so many people, he felt he had no effective means of defending himself from the pandemic other than strictly adhering to the protocols laid out by government officials, and even then he felt there was no guarantee he wouldn’t contract the virus. My heart went out to him. I wanted him, and all, to realize there is a spiritual power that is unchangeable, ever present, and able to provide protection from contagion and sickness. The Scriptures put it this way: “I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed” (Malachi 3:6).
We’re often led to believe that the physical senses alone are to be trusted to inform us of who we are and what’s going on. But Christ Jesus came to show us a new view of life and being—a spiritual view—the real, unchanging, immortal nature of God and His creation. This view of spiritual completeness and perfection, understood, enabled Jesus to definitively heal physical and moral evil. And it can heal discord of every name and nature through our prayers when we begin to grasp this understanding.
