BE HARDEST HIT BY COVID-19

[Sujitha.and.Upali]

Yes, that is my prayer right now, not just for Sri Lankans but for most people all over the world.  Just one exception – that is the ‘hit’ not to be affecting the respiratory system!

 

Well, what I mean is this.  Today the world hardly know what discipline is.  What falling in line is.  What decency is.

 

It is said that most countries where the people suffer by this virus do so because they do not pay heed to the VERY LOUD SIGNALS we have been receiving, be it COVID-19 or otherwise.  Now it makes better sense to me why Mr Noah had to build the Ark and why Mr Lot’s wife became a ‘pillar of salt’.

 

This letter may hurt some of us, but I think, better be hurt now than be cradled in Hell’s ladle.

 

Let me first retell a statement a priest made in a sermon - Rev. Fr. Ignatius Yeo (Singapore).  He said there is something called ‘Divine Justice’ (I trust my memory recall on this term is accurate).  The example he gave was like this:  Suppose he found fault with somebody and said something hurtful to a parishioner, where the parishioner may not even know what the Rev. Fr. was talking about (may be a result of misidentification).  Next, the parishioner is taking a taxi and this person is deeply troubled why he/she received that comment and is thinking hard.  Now the taxi driver asks where the passenger intends to go, and the passenger loses his/her temper because he/she ‘believes’ that his/her destination has already been conveyed to the driver and shouts at the driver.  Then it is the turn for the driver to start worrying why he got ‘shouted-at’ and loses concentration of his driving and runs-over a pedestrian causing a death.   Rev. Fr. Yeo said he may never know that he started a chain of events leading up to the death, yet when he reaches heaven’s gate, he will have to face the ‘Divine Justice’.

 

Now you may wonder what is the connection of COVID-19 to Divine Justice.  To me, the message GOD is conveying to us is to be disciplined.  Are we disciplined?  I am sure most of us do ‘honestly’ believe we are.  Yet it may not be really so.  Also we consider ourselves ‘SMART’.  i.e. we know how to get things ‘done’.  From a daily occurrence such as acquiring a parking slot before a guy who had been waiting to use it, to seeing a doctor ‘ahead of somebody else’ and right now there may be some who are ‘immune’ to the curfew!  (The list has many many more in between). Because, we know somebody or somebody’s somebody. Well, time to remember GOD.  Remember HE sees everything;  HE knows each of us (just not the number of hair on our heads!)

 

So, it is time.  Time to be disciplined.   When JESUS said “Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” I am sure HE also meant that when we Trust in GOD, we should be disciplined to wait our just turn.  Every time we circumvent the system, the required discipline, we commit a number of sins and the one I am most concerned about is the example we set for our younger generation. That alone should subject us to Divine Justice.

 

So, when you pray, pray for the courage to follow proper discipline, for yourself and your loved ones.  That is if we do not have the time to pray for the rest of the people in this world.  If we do not do the ‘SMART’ thing, will we lose out?  NO, I mean no, I am not going to give you that guarantee.  But I can give you a guarantee on the long term you will not lose.  I have seen it not just once, twice, thrice.  I have experienced it from age seven or so.  GOD works wonders.  We sometimes realize them quite late.  Sometimes not while we are here on earth, side by side with COVID-19 and such.  But may be GOD enjoys carrying on HIS shoulders while we are only aware of, (and may be even enjoying) the distant waves of an ocean.

 

Now this long letter does not mean that I have been a well-disciplined person all this time.   My wife, Sujitha, has been trying to drill into me things like not to touch the eyes unless the hands are washed and clean.  It took me 40 years to ‘see’ what she was telling me was for my own good!

 

GOD Bless you all!  (By the way COVID-19 will pass-over us, if we, all of ‘we’, follow the few little good things we are required to do).

 

Upali