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Hello. This is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church and the following Kingdom Perspective is a part of a special series on the coronavirus pandemic.

What should we do in the response to the coronavirus?
We must rethink the arrogant assumptions of our lives.

If this crisis exposes anything it exposes the frailty of our life and the assumptions we make about it. The fact that something so small, that it is unseen to the naked eye, could not only kill me but bring modern civilization to a standstill ought to be a warning to us all.

Your life is not your own. You belong to God. You were made by Him. You were made for Him. You will give an account to Him. Your life is in His hands. To not recognize this, both deeply and continually, is what the Bible calls worldliness—and it is the height of foolishness.

This foolishness is what the New Testament writer James (echoing both Jesus and the Old Testament) goes after in James chapter four. “13 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”

Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective.

“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”

~ James 4:13–16