This virus....

I havr to admit When I first heard about this virus it didn't seem that deadly to me my family and I would even make jokes about my sisters favorite alcohol Corona but as more and more began to suffer and as more and more deaths happened I quickly began to realize this wasn't at all what I thought it was. I assumed it was literally like getting the cold or flu where you can get over it in time with rest and the usual remedies not death on a global scale in fact I didn't even know it could kill but I was naive and completely misunderstood. I already felt so powerless and unable to help when the cases and deaths were at their minimal asking God to help everyone who is suffering even then feeling like my prayers were a feeble attempt to do anything since I was already basically in quarantine even before this virus was an issue since for the past year due to health issues I was unable to go anywhere or do anything and trust me it gets old really fast.

For anyone who knows what it's like you know how severely depressing it can get you are extremely limited to what you can do day to day it's like playing the same song on repeat over and over and over again days lose their meaning life seems pointless and you begin to be overwhelmed with depression now think of a whole year of this. I never want anyone to have to suffer through this like I have and for a long while I wasn't even able to be on cc where my home and family is. Today the news reported 1,095 deaths that happened just today because of this thing and people are losing heart fear is beginning to spread like the virus itself as people slowly begin to understand how serious this virus actually is.

But this is not meant to be a post of despair it is to be one of hope. The devil would love nothing more than for us to lose heart and to give in to fear he would relish us believing our prayers are feeble and worth little making no difference and he would love for us to have hope dwindle away but today is not that day because God stands with us and we are his hands we are his feet and we are the physical embodiment of his very heart. I do not know why but today I am not afraid and I have not lost faith or hope in fact their is a fire in bones and I intend to pray with all my heart and that fire burning I refuse to believe that this is out of our hands and that there is not much we can do. I refuse to let fear and darkness surround those around me.

I have always told God I believe in the power of prayer how it only takes one heart to make a difference how it only it takes one spark to make the fire burn and I know I am not the only one here who believes this. To me the prayers of a heartfelt believer was always a mental image a fire rising to heaven as if a sweet smelling incense to father and if this time of darkness and death is going to ravage everything then I say let the fire burn and the spark ignite

Good point / post.
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You wrote,
".. only it takes one spark to make the fire burn.."
It reminds the song.. during 1970's.
- 'Pass It On.'
The song starts with..
'It only takes a spark to get a fire going..'
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Maybe it is time for prayers/intercession, praise & spiritual renewal again.

Blessings,

2Ch 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

What a promise! It is always time for Christians to turn to God in prayer.