

Volunteerism is up in great numbers. Many want to help! We are coming together to help each other get through this. Common enemies have a tendency to do that. We think the common enemy is this virus. Our real enemy is Satan, however. How we respond to the “worst of times” will reflect Who we believe and follow.

God has the attention of his people more than ever before. His church has left the building and has gone online to reach and teach people around the world who are hungry to hear His words with a new eagerness to give Him praise. We are created to worship HIM and it is happening! We are worshiping God more than the stuff we think we own.
Yes, it is the best and worst of times. It depend on our perspective. What is your perspective? What does perspective does God wants us to look for in all of this?
How will we respond to our present circumstances? What do we do daily that is pleasing to God, we might ask? I am drawn to Romans 12 this morning.
Romans 12
1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and
walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

3 I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.



11-13 Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.

17-19 Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. “I’ll do the judging,” says God. “I’ll take care of it.”
20-21 Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he’s thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don’t let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.
Friends, Yes, these are the BEST of times. God’s Best in us. Let us look at our present circumstances from God’s point of view. Look up to God first. Then look around to see what God is doing. Ask God for wisdom. He will give it. Then thank Him. Praise and worship the One and Only this morning.
In Jesus Name, and By His Power in us, Amen. I believe.