When bad things happen, some people think the question is “How can a good God let this happen?” Others say the question is “What is God trying to tell us with this pestilence he has sent into the world?”

God did not send the COVID virus. It is one of the foreseeable results of a fallen and broken world. God’s creation (man and nature) is out of covenant with Him, not living as designed. So bad things are going to happen, including pandemic disease.

The real question is “What does God see when He looks upon our response?” What He wants and hopes is that it draws us closer to each other. And to Him. That we lean into helping our fellow man. And that we lean into our complete dependence on Him.