Ireland Tate recently said on social media that she’s “aware that we’re supposed to be self-quarantining and social distancing” to “keep everyone safe,” but that she wasn’t worried. “Cool. I get it. I just don’t think I’m going to get the virus,” she said in her video.
A few days later, the twenty-one-year-old Tennessee woman was suffering from symptoms associated with the virus and tested positive. Now she’s warning other young people to stay home: “While it may not be affecting you, you could be affecting someone’s grandma or grandpa or aunt or uncle or sister.”
Brady Sluder made similar headlines a few days ago for his defiance of social distancing guidelines. While on spring break in Miami, he told reporters, “If I get corona, I get corona.”
He has now apologized, stating: “I’d like to take this time to own up to the mistakes I’ve made and apologize to the people I’ve offended.” He said that he, like many people, has “elderly people who I adore more than anything in the world and other family members who are at risk.”
He stated that he wants to “use this as motivation to become a better person, a better son, a better friend, and a better citizen.”
Their stories remind us that coronavirus is a danger to
anyone and that those who are infected are a danger to the rest of us. We are
all fallen people living in a fallen world.
But their stories also show us that when we fall into sin
and failure, repentance is always the right response.
The hope and power of repentance
It’s hard to list many heroes of the Bible who did not
travel on the road of repentance and restoration. We could start with Peter,
who denied his Lord three times but later became the preacher of Pentecost. Or
Paul, the persecutor of Christians who later wrote half of the New Testament.
St. Augustine, often considered the greatest theologian
after Paul, made famous his repentance through his spiritual…
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