Enough Already

Lately it’s occured to me that I have been approaching the whole Covid issue the wrong way. It’s been really odd because I’ve been insisting all along that the new normal is temporary, and that the narrative will not hold. As a Christian, I’ve been praying in my usually spectacularly ineffectual way for this nonsense to be over. After all even the government’s figures have been so low for hospitalisations and deaths for months now. So, why do we still have restrictions? And, if as I believe that our salvation from this living hell is coming from God, and I along with so many other Christians are praying, why are things going from bad to worse?

The final straw was this week’s announcement that lockdown will be extended for another 4 weeks. Why? They are still talking as though it’s not finalised, leaking stuff to the press to get everyone ready. But Covid marshalls have been contracted till 2022, with a possible extension to 2023. If they can fly across the world and not quarantine, and gladhand each other without a care in the world except when they’re indulging in theatre and standing 2m apart from one another, wearing masks for photo ops, why are the elderly not able to see their families without thinking they’ll all drop dead? Why are livelihoods being destroyed and young people left feeling there is no hope or future for them?

The road to clarity? I have a desperately ill cousin whom I’ve been praying for. It occured to me that because I believe she will be healed, I pray for her in a different, more personal way. It’s one person, it just seems easier. And when I pray for her, I ask for what I want, already beleieving it’s done because it’s God’s will. Yet when I pray about the darkness that covers the Earth, because it’s so intimidating, I change the prayer context to asking if you would, could you please. Even though I believe it’s God’s will to free us all from oppression. So, enough already. Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee before him.

Because our entirely useless leaders seem to have so much power and no one can apparently stand against them as they destroy people’s families, businesses and mental health, they get away with ordeing us around and making any number of contradictory, dishonest decisions rather than face up to the harm they’ve done. A quiescent, unquestioning electorate is so much easier to govern, even enslave. But who are they to defy the armies of the living God? Nothing but chaff before the wind. It doesn’t matter if it’s incompetence or if there’s an agenda, the end result is still the same – the human race cowed, demoralised and enslaved. So, here is one person saying enough already, not in my power, but in God’s power. They didn’t create us, they don’t get to destroy us or determine our destinies. It is absolutely God’s will that this wickedness should end, and that end comes today. I am thrilled to say that it’s not in my power and it’s already done so i don’t have to worry about how it’s accomplished. I’m just get the easy part, the privilege of saying it out loud along with the other people who can see it. It is totally liberating to not have to do anything, just step out in faith. Enough.