Last September, Gallup surveyed Americans’ views of US
businesses, ranking twenty-five different sectors from very positive to very negative.
The pharmaceutical industry came in dead last, lower than at any time since
Gallup began the poll nearly twenty years ago.
As Forbes notes, “What a difference a global
pandemic makes.”
Today, the world is depending on the pharmaceutical industry to save lives and economies around the world. The article notes that there are no fewer than 267 different COVID-19 remedies in development, then handicaps the most promising.
The world cannot imagine better news than the discovery of a
vaccine that would end the coronavirus pandemic. But as historic as this would
be, there is even better news available to us today.
The most urgent cure in the world
The fact is, COVID-19 has changed our perception of
mortality but not its reality. We are all destined to die unless the Lord
returns first. Whether we die of a disease or a disaster, we will each die. And
then we will stand before God in judgment (Hebrews 9:27).
Those who do not know Christ as their Lord face “the second death” (Revelation 20:14), an eternity separated from God. That’s why, as urgent as a vaccine for COVID-19 is, the “vaccine” for sin through salvation in Christ is even more urgent.
My wife, Janet Denison, wrote on this subject in her blog
today, noting that Passover begins tonight. Jewish people around the world will
remember the miracle of the death angel’s “passing over” their homes
in Egypt (Exodus 12).
But as Janet reminds us, the “passover” we need even more urgently today is salvation not from “the virus that is costing people their earthly lives, but the virus that is costing people their eternity.”
The enemy will use distractions of any kind to lure us away
from what matters most. They may be tragedies such as the current pandemic or
promises of a return to “normal” when it is over. They…
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