Today it appeared I had been shut out of my blog. It has been months since I posted an article .
That wasn't too surprising. With the pandemic, I only went out among crowds three times in a year. But I didn't intend to drop out of society.
I love people, especially friends and family. I missed seeing them and being with them all.
Yet, we were able to get our immunizations, one shot and a booster, and we haven't been ill. Praise the Lord! Our children and grandchildren were spared from the virus as well.
Our special friends in Pueblo, Colo., came down with it though. They feared the vaccine because they'd had an effect from a flu shot years ago. The flu shot, as well as the vaccine, are made from killed viruses, so what affected them must have been a mild form of the sickness, or something else.
Whatever the case, they became seriously ill from Covid. I'm thankful they didn't pass away. But they were totally unprotected from from the virus because they hadn't received the immunization.
One of them had to go to the hospital in an ambulance and the other was flight lifted to Denver, if I remember correctly.
They and we are thankful friends and relatives know how to pray and we all are thankful God answers prayer. We also are thankful for medical blessings we enjoy in the United States, for the people who studied and learned how to take care of people who are sick, and for the miracles that come from the God who created us, gave humans knowledge about what to do for the sick, and loves all of us no matter who we are and what we need.
The Lord doesn't always give us miracles, but he never leaves or forsakes us. He said he'd never forsake us, and that includes everything we may go through.
Scripture tells us Jesus died on the cross so that we can accept him as our Savior and never die. Even though our body may die, the spirit goes to God who gave it. When the thief who died on another cross beside Jesus repented and said, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom," Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in Paradise. "
He also told the sisters of Lazarus, "He who lives and believes in me will never die."
Jesus showed his power over death when he raised Lazarus from the dead!
But the most tremendous testimony to the world and everyone in it was when Jesus, who lay in a closed and sealed tomb after the crucifixion, his hands and feet bloody and his side still bleeding and sunken where the sword entered, walked out alive three days later--alive forevermore!
He showed himself to the doubting, to five hundred people at once, ate with them, and walked into a closed room and stood before them.
Then he went up in the clouds, and promised to come back again.
Who will come out of their graves and meet him in the air? Check it out at 1Thessalonians 4:14-18.
