Panic or Peace

my daddy
William Winfred Watson
New Guinea, World War II
1944

"God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:9)

Last week, Phillip and I finished reading Sterling North's award-winning autobiography: Rascal, set in 1918 when the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide.

This week, we started Lois Lowry's award-winning youth fiction, Number the Stars, based on a true World War II story when the nation of Denmark smuggled 7,220 Danish Jews by sea to nearby neutral Sweden to escape the Nazi Germany Holocaust.

"In this world, you will have trouble," Jesus said in John 16:33, "but take heart and have peace in Me, because I have overcome the world." 

Today, we find ourselves in trouble—another history-making pandemic. We can live each day in panic or in peace depending on our focus.

Focus on Jesus, beloved, and live in His peace. He is faithful. He will never leave us or forsake us. He overcomes the troubles of our day.

"I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." (Romans 8:18)