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What Is God Doing through the Coronavirus?
diseases and calamities would become a vivid picture of
how horrible sin is. In other words, physical evil is a parable,
a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion
against God.
Why might that be fitting? Because in our present condition,
after the fall, blinded by sin, we cannot see or feel
how repugnant sin against God is. Hardly anyone in the
world feels the horror of preferring other things over God.
Who loses any sleep over our daily belittling of God by
neglect and defiance?
But, oh, how we feel our physical pain! How indignant
we can become if God touches our bodies! We may not
grieve over the way we demean God every day in our hearts.
But let the coronavirus come and threaten our bodies, and
he has our attention. Or does he? Physical pain is God’s
trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong
in the world. Disease and deformity are God’s pictures in
the physical realm of what sin is like in the spiritual realm.
And that is true, even though some of the most godly
people in the world bear those diseases and deformities.
Calamities are God’s previews of what sin deserves and will
one day receive in judgment a thousand times worse. They
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