Eight (8) Lessons during COVID-19 from a Former Pandemic
Francis Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, wrote a sermon about the pandemic entitled "Some Reflections Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza that Afflicted Our City." The sermon is commendable in its entirety, making some salient points that we would all do well to reflect on. You can read it in full on the 9 Marks website: https://www.9marks.org/article/some-reflections-growing-out-of-the-recent-epidemic-of-influenza-that-afflicted-our-city/ Grimke wonders out loud "what is the meaning of it all?" and then makes eight (8) observations in that regards that might be summarized as follows: God's Patient Mercy - "How easy it would be for God to wipe out the whole human race." God's Sovereign Will - "...why of those who took the disease some recovered and others did not...is to be found in the will of God." God's Inscrutable Will - ...