I was listening to a message this morning for church, and this thought struck me. Where we are with COVID and the vaccine is so much like the world's relationship with Jesus.
We have been through the dark times shaped by fear, the unknown, anxiety, loss, and a lot of other feelings dealing with worry and darkness. That is like the time between the last prophesy and Jesus' arrival on the scene.
Now we have entered into this phase where there is still darkness but we have a little light. There are some vaccines available and in limited supply being circulated. It is like Jesus when he lived on the earth, restoring freedom and hope from the darkness and fear of the virus to those he touched. But we are limited in that because of supply the same way Jesus was limited when he was here just as a man. At this phase we are so close to the greatest part of the story. When Jesus died, he promised he would be able to come back and be available for everyone through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Let us not lose hope and become less diligent when we are so close to the final freedom like the disciples after Jesus was crucified.
Then the Holy Spirit came in terms of Jesus being with us all the time to free us from darkness and sin IF we just allow it. That is the stage we will be at soon and the stage the world has been at with Jesus since the very first Easter. We can choose whether to get the vaccine and live protected from the danger of the physical darkness and death caused by the virus in the same way we can choose whether to accept Jesus' life as a vaccine to the spiritual darkness and death.
