Peter Turner shares some of his thoughts about the Lord’s prayer and covid-19: This morning, I was thinking about how to pray in a general sense about the current novel coronavirus pandemic facing the entire world.
At first, I thought to ask God to kill off, remove, eliminate the virus so that we would see new cases drop and stop, and those in leadership would give the all-clear for us to get back to our ‘normal’ lives and begin repairing the economic damage. But then I remembered that God is able to bring good out of, or somehow through, the evils that come as a result of our fall, our sin, the curse, and this world’s brokenness. Perhaps it is part of His master plan — not that He caused this, but is using to His ends — that the world experience this crisis. Read it all