Faith Does Indeed Count

 The election, the pandemic, and the will of God/Jesus have my mind in an exciting whirl.

The assumption I will start, this mental conversation, with is that most people know what God's will is for those who desire to follow in his ways.  

We know Jesus asked his follower/students to demonstrate empathy in their living and speaking.

If we know nothing else, we know Jesus asks us to love as he loves — which is basically unconditionally.

He asks us to forgive others as we have been so freely forgiven.

He ask us to be unquestionably aware of others needs and feelings. 

He asks us to live peaceably with each other — building up, not tearing down the identity of others.

And, by the way, I think that Jesus would ask us all to wear masks.

I just had to add that point(;

So, about now your mind might be suggesting that I have said all this before.

And you would be correct.

However, I am inviting you to think about what you already know.  I am asking you to do this because all of Jesus requests are critically relevant to todays particular national and world-wide situations.

An  election that is being unfoundedly contested.

A pandemic that has flared up in extraordinarily massive numbers.

All of which has heightened the emotional tensions of the population all over the world.

God, I believe, is asking us to pay more attention then ever to the call to follow his original plan for the human creation.

Now, more that ever, we are all called to step up and do our part in bring order into all of the chaos.

³For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, ⁴for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. (1 John 5)