Amid the ongoing pandemic, there’s constant chatter about and hope abounds for a cure or vaccine.  People are at the point that even so-called “herd immunity” would be welcome.

But the thought that just occurred to me is that what I’d really really really like to be IMMUNE from is DISPLEASING GOD.  A spiritual vaccine which would prevent me from ever sinning again.

It’s still very much up in the air as to whether a physical vaccine for COVID-19 will actually materialize.  But unfortunately, a spiritual vaccine against ever sinning again is not going to happen.  Not in this lifetime.  Not in this world.  Not on this side of eternity.

No, the Bible makes (crystal) clear that “ALL have sinned” (Romans 3:23) and “ALL we like sheep have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:6) and that “we are ALL like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags [Lit., “used tampons”]” (Isaiah 64:6) and that even post-salvation “we all stumble in MANY ways” (James 3:2).  Like I said, the Bible couldn’t be any clearer  in the matter.  Such that even “Mr. black-and-white, cut-and-dry” himself, the Apostle John, concedes that even as Christians we will indeed sin from time to time (1 John 2:1).  Ergo, in this life, until we get to the blessed shores of heaven, there is NO IMMUNITY from sin.

But there IS a “therapeutic” from the spiritual pandemic which has plagued the entire human race since that first, fierce, fearsome fall in the garden of Eden.

The Bible.

Let us be wise enough to treasure it.  To read it.  To study it.  To memorize/ingest/consume it (as I like to tell people:  “Consume the Bible.  And the Bible will consume you.“).  I.e., to truly find  it.

And as discussed in-depth in one of the very first posts on this blog and in the Overview video, one of my favorite verses brings us full circle back to the pandemic and physical health.  It’s Proverbs 4:22.

• “For they [the “my words” of verse 20, i.e., the Bible] are life to those who find them, and health to all their whole body.”

That’s the main reason I haven’t experienced even a nanosecond of fear throughout this entire and very deadly pandemic:  because I have many of His words and much of His Word “richly dwelling” in me (Colossians 3:16), I have found them and therefore can and have and do depend on and rest in this promise of Proverbs 4:22.  Best. Healthcare. Plan. EVER!  Indeed.

Yes, unfortunately nothing in this life will make us entirely immune from sinning thanks to our fiercest foe:  fallen flesh.  But there is  a “spiritual therapeutic” that comes very close EVEN IN THIS LIFE, even on THIS side of heaven, and that’s the Bible.

• “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” (Psalm 119:11)
• “like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word [i.e., the Bible], that BY it you may grow in respect to salvation,” (1 Peter 2:2)

Thank You, Lord, for so graciously giving us Your Word, the Bible.  It is indeed a treasure.  So may we treasure it.
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