I don't know where to start but, will my faith save me? I have been following the news about COVID and I'm getting worried because cases keep on increasing, new variants discovered and in addition, conspiracies circulating in social media about turning into a zombie. I'm so stressed thinking this and I feel I'm being paranoid whenever I see new COVID news. Please enlighten me.
Loaded question you ask.
First the bad news:
All people everywhere have the responsibility to learn, educate themselves, and act smart. This is not loose language, but I'm not going to spend half an hour now digging up all the verses in the bible that tell people to be wise, prudent, and know what Jesus forewarned about the evil agenda of the government and the horror of the last days.
The teaching about the Sower who sows seed and it landed on 4 types of ground (Pathway, shallow ground, thorny ground, and good soil). In each of the cases, the people are responsible to bear fruit unto God. In the 3 situations that produced no fruit, they were responsible to read, learn, and keep praying for understanding so that they could bear fruit to God (pathway); to take the word far more seriously than they did and be committed to HIm than they were (the shallow); and to not let the cares of the world and other desires choke out the word (thorny).
If you have been a Christian for more than a couple years, you should have already read the bible through a couple of times, and read many of the books within several times. The book of Revelation grants 2 special blessing in the opening paragraph: 1 for reading the book (aloud), and another for heeding the words therein.
Rev 1:3 Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near.
Being born in America and knowing the US Constitution should have given you more clues since the founders of America wrote explicitly that Man is not to be trusted and special limits should be put on him in a governmental sense.
And then if you participated in any of the better denominations that urge their members to read and study the scriptures, then you had to be aware that we all have a sense that the End Days are upon us. (Some of us are more keen to it than others, and the doctrine of a pre-trib rapture has done great harm because such people believe that they will not have to go through the tortures and misery that the followers of Christ have had to endure since the 1st century, and even during Old Testament times, the righteous were persecuted.)
Lastly, putting God to the test is not wise, i.e. doing drugs of all types or drinking while driving, or fornicating or behaving homosexually and being spared disease, as examples.
Now the good, or at least hopeful, news:
Mark 16:15 And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mark 16:16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Mark 16:18
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."
Mark 16:19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:20 And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.
So in conclusion, Hannahande, Seek the Lord earnestly and repent of the sin of foolishness for taking the injection from the Satanic New World Order whose agenda we should all know plainly, and then ask God to be merciful to you such that the harm from the experimental drug (it's not a vaccine) He will spare you of its harm.
And believe, and keep beseeching Him about this.
Learn from the widow who kept bothering the unrighteous judge. Read
Luke 18:1 And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 18:2 He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;
Luke 18:3 and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Vindicate me against my adversary.'
Luke 18:4 For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor regard man,
Luke 18:5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"
Luke 18:6 And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
Luke 18:7 And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
Luke 18:8 I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
