FROM MY SIDE : THE LAND OF CORONAVIRUS

The year started beautifully as churches, organizations and institutions started shouting their themes for the year at 12am during 31st night. Everything was magical, different kinds of beautiful fireworks were thrown into the sky just to
welcome this year. The year looked promising at least for me as a young lady I had lots of activity planed
as my new year resolutions, but little did I know that the year also had its own plans .I woke up one day
and heard Chinese were dying. But the question was why were they dying, what was going on there,
and then I decide to research and found the exact thing killing them. CORONA VIRUS.

I have read the lexicon, I mean the dictionary from page to page, cover to cover but I never came across this word.
I thought I had seen it all, not knowing some were in stock for me to witness.
CORONAVIRUS, a word which when people see, they could tremble, at the sound of it people begin to shake, not to the extent when people come into close contact with, they fall of  like the leaves from my grandfather's pawpaw tree.

 That was the secret behind the deaths of many Chinese. But I cared less because it was too far from me and never
crossed my mind on how it could possibly get to me since I had no intention of going there at least for that period. China's situation became worst because this virus had no cure and it was also very deadly. I began to panic when I heard and read how the situation never got better and World Health Organization
(WHO) eventually declared the case as a pandemic. It then hit me WHAT IF IT COMES TO MY COUNTY?,
what will happen to us.

These were my thoughts when I realized the case had gotten to other counties. I
began to live in fear, then I remembered the bible tells us in 2nd timothy 1:7 not to fear because the lord
has given us power over it. I became normal, life continued, but my fear keeps coming each and every
time I hear about this virus. Then all of a sudden my worries, nightmares and fears just hit me. Finally the noble covid 19 has managed to get to us, then comes my question again, what will happen to us?
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO US, now that the case keeps increasing every single day.

I had to hold myself together, never to let go.
My faith now begins to deepen. Quarantine, Lockdowns, the world now in a standstill. I still can't believe this is happening, I never believe this would happen.
My own face, my mouth, my eyes, my nose, my ears, I can't touch. I never realized or dreamt that, I would be restricted from walking even to the extent of not touching my own body parts.

I asked myself has the lord God given up on us, is the world coming to an end. Have we human's finally sinned to that
extreme that our heavenly father can’t forgive us anymore? These were the questions that keeps ringing
in my head every time I hear the news about COVID 19. I remember as a Christian that, the lord said in Isaiah 65:24 "I will answer them before they even call to me". While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead
and answer their prayers, so why is my prayers not answered. Because each night I pray asking God and begging him to forgive us and heal us from this virus.

I always wake up with a hope that everything will be over but it was never like that. But then I remembered reading Ecclesiastes 3 where it talks about seasons and time. So then I knew that the lord has not given up on us he is working on the time and
seasons principles. He said in Deuteronomy 3: 16 that he will not leave or forsake us.

So to all those who
are saying we’re all going to die before June please stop saying that because there is nothing too hard
for God, it’s just that sometimes he allow some things to happen to us so we will be mindful of who he
really is. Just know that everything that has beginning has an end our current situation now will not stay
forever, the God will surely put an end to it. Let’s not lose hope and faith in our god because Jesus Christ
is the same yesterday and today and forever.

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