Keeping Calm
Keep Calm and Carry On
In every country, fear of the battle against Covid is growing.
In many countries contagion is growing.
Statistics change depending on what website you look at but on Oct 30th I read that those who have suffered with Covid-19 virus worldwide number over 47 million in 216 countries with over 1,021,000 deaths.
In this time of battle, to misquote a famous wartime slogan, “How can we ‘Keep Calm and Carry on?’”
In our own personal battles, “How can we keep calm and carry on?”
I would briefly like to share with you a few thoughts words written by a man called Paul who was going through a really tough time. His words have helped me cope with long term illness, bereavement and other difficulties in my life. They are once again giving me comfort and hope during this second lockdown.
Paul experienced bullying and injustice, was beaten up, endured shipwreck to name just a few of the things going on in his life when he penned these words.
What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us?
Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death?…..Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There are many reasons presented in these verses that give us the ability to keep calm and carry on. Here are just a few of them. Study the verse above to find even more.
Reasons to Keep Calm and Carry On
1. We can keep calm and carry on because we have a powerful God on our side. Nothing is too hard for God; He has defeated everything. In the last part of what he writes, Paul casts his mind around to envision the nine most powerful forces in the universe and concludes that none of them can ever separate us from the love of God.
2. We can keep calm and carry on even when we feel everyone and everything is working against us.
3. We can keep calm and carry on because we are not going through these experiences on own.
We can keep calm and carry on because God, according to this passage, has always been with us, is with us now and will always be with us through the difficult situations of life.
Nothing takes Him by surprise, nothing is unexpected and He even knows the best way to deal with the matter at hand.
So go on, talk to Him about your own difficult situations. Talk to Him about your Covid-19 fears, the wage cuts and the job losses.
Ask Him to carry you through and BE the same God that Paul was so grateful to have experienced. You never know you might find, with God’s help, you really can Keep Calm and Carry On.
All quotations in this post are from the Contemporary English Version of the Bible, Second Edition
© 2006 American Bible Society
