Spiritual Coronavirus!

Spiritual Coronavirus!

If you think coronavirus is bad, you must know there is something even worse! Corona means 'crown' and spiritually it points to the mind. The spiritual coronavirus affects the minds of people.

The coronavirus gets into the body of an individual, invades the cells of the respiratory system and using the mechanisms in the cells multiplies, creating chaos. Similarly, the lies and wicked ways of the devil gain entry into an individual through his mind. They invade the mind and turn the course of his thinking towards unrighteousness, evil, wickedness and lies. They also twist the truth of GOD'S word in the mind of Christians, bringing deception in subtle ways. 

A susceptible individual who is unable to fight and overcome the virus would eventually die, the lungs unable to transfer sufficient oxygen into the blood. If one does not overcome the lies of the devil with the truth, he would continue to walk the path of unrighteousness. The thoughts of his mind would lead him to depression, confusion, even suicide. He could also be led into acts of wickedness and evil causing harm to others. Even a believer could give in to such thoughts and be led in the path of error!

If such a person does not change his ways, eventually his thoughts would turn his heart away from GOD. His spiritual lungs get filled with infected fluid, cutting off  his connection with the precious Holy Spirit. Thus the devil takes control of such a life of lies and darkness and unless he is delivered before his physical death, he will pass onto eternal death! What a victory and joy it would be to see a patient infected and affected by a virus overcome the infection and walk in health! Even more blessed is one who has overcome the devil with the power of GOD and is walking in the path of righteousness, truth and light. Such a person also sheds light on the path of others!

An individual who is infected can spread the virus through his mouth and nose so that others exposed to him can catch the virus. One who is deceived and is being used as an agent of the devil, deceives and stumbles others through his ways and words.

 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)-- then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire." 

2 Peter 2:1-22 

For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight-- if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. 

Colossians 1:19-23 

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. 

Colossians 2:6-10