Dear What Now,

You need to look for a church that is staying open through this COVID thing. I know a sister who drives one hour each way to get to a good fellowship that is open. We have to learn to push our self through laziness. Laziness is not in the Bible. The main way we are going to grow is through the Word of God. The Word is alive and life changing but not if we do not know what it has to say.

We Christians have so many promises and hope that the rest of the world does not have. Do we have problems? Of course, sometimes more so because the devil comes against those who want to succeed. Our purpose is to live in faith and hope, not fear. Our purpose is to bring others to the light of Jesus Christ, but if we have a downcast look and are always complaining and never content, who would want to follow that kind of Jesus?



Remember what Jesus said in John 10:10: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they (Christians) may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” All the issues you mentioned that you are bringing over from 2020 into 2021 are in the steal, kill, and destroy part and that is of the devil. Jesus does not give these to you but the dark side does. We must learn to live in the life and more abundantly part. 

We have an antidote from the Bible for every issue that comes our way! All you mentioned are feelings and thoughts so the Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10:5,  “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ . . . .” We have to choose to do this! We can entertain thoughts against what God would say or cast them off us by bringing them under a promise of God.

Go to the Bible and look up what it says about each one of the issues you mentioned and choose to obey what it says. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue . . . . ” (Proverbs 18:21a).