Writings By Phil

November 5, 2022

I had great plans for today. I was going to install cabinets. It wasn’t a big job, just three uppers and two floor to ceiling pantries. Now, it won’t happen, not this week!

Instead, I sit in my recliner remembering better days when filling my lungs with air didn’t hurt or make me cough.  I am sick! According to Walgreen’s home test, I have Covid! For over two years, all through the so-called “pandemic,” I dodged it.  Now, its got me and I’m not moving very fast!

Covid-19 is a hot topic, laced with controversy, and begetting questions like flies beget maggots in carrion. Was it a natural occurring virus from the animal kingdom that crossed over to humans? I don’t know! Was it manmade, a virus made for bio-warfare? I don’t know! Did my own government have a hand in its development? I don’t know! Did the people and agencies that are supposed to protect us make millions of dollars off  the fear and misery of the American people?  I don’t know!  Was it necessary to shut the country down? Looking at Florida that opened schools and businesses long before most other States, the answer seems to be a resounding “No!” So many questions begging for clarification! I am not holding my breath for an explanation! We may never know the truth.

For the past eight days, I have not felt like doing much.  I wanted to write more, to read more, but it was all too much effort. Today is the first day I felt well enough to sit at my desk and write. However, though my body rested, I could not get my mind to be still.  I did do a lot of thinking!

I do not wish to be morbid, but I thought about death. Since January 2020, over a million deaths have been attributed to this malady, just in the USA. We all die! The killer may not be Covid-19, but eventually, we will all meet our demise!

I thought about our Creator! Intelligent design demands an intelligent designer! Even ardent evolutionist struggle with that one! The human body is complex and I refuse to believe it came about though a series of accidents starting way back in the “so called” primordial ooze. A billion, billion years would not be enough time for evolution to work. To believe that takes way more faith than I can muster. I get it, though, people don’t want to believe in God because that would mean they are not in charge and will one day be held accountable for their actions here on this earth. If God exists, then a day of judgment is coming!

Death is true!  It is appointed unto every man once to die! Hebrews 9:27-28

Judgement is true! After death comes judgment.  Hebrews 9:27-28  We are all sinners and the wages of sin is death!  Romans 6:23

Salvation is true! Faith in Jesus is the only way we can be saved from judgment.  Acts 4:12

Eternal life is true!  We can know that we have eternal life! 1 John 5:13

Acceptance with God is true! It comes, not from the good things I try to do, I fail so many times, but through what Jesus did for me!  Philippians 3:9 says, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Getting sick with Covid has reminded me how frail I am. It has reminded me of the goodness of God.  He loves me in spite of all my failures and short comings. I could not live life to please Him, so He sent Jesus to do it for me. By faith, I accepted what Jesus did for me on the cross, taking my punishment and giving me His righteousness. Then God adopted me into His family, making me an heir with Jesus.  How great is that!  It certainly is a comfort as I navigate all the unknowns that life sends my way.

I’m getting better!  Hopefully, in a week or so I can hang those cabinets.

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