Remote!
It’s more than the controller you use to change the stations on your television.
So much has changed since COVID struck and turned things upside down! One of the things we do differently now is the way we connect, meet, work, teach, study and get together.
Not face to face. But virtually.
We were forced to put church services on Facebook or YouTube to reach people, we had to learn to teach online to our students who couldn’t attend school in person and we had to adjust to learning in a virtual environment.
Many people had to shift gears in a major way to continue to work in a safe environment at home instead of coming into an office building.
We discovered that we could meet with medical professionals online and describe our symptoms, and they could determine how to treat us or where to send us to get help. For people in isolated areas without many options for health care, the ability to talk long distance to a doctor was a blessing.
Our eyes were opened to the possibilities of Zoom meetings and the freedom to meet with people without limits of distance and without travel.
Some of these changes were good. Some devastating.
We came to appreciate the ability to get together in person! We missed the human contact of being with other Christians for worship, singing, praising and Bible study as well as preaching!
Many began to feel isolated.
Recently, Gary and I have been taking a course in how to handle diabetes through Zoom classes. It has been wonderful. Although I have had the illness for many years and have been dealing with it, it’s never too late to learn more and to get updates. I am grateful we can sit around our dining room table with the laptop between us and learn from a professional about how to improve our health!
Sometimes, though, you want proximity to a real, live person.
You want someone with skin on.
Isn’t it amazing the way Jesus came — God with skin on! He came to teach us, walk with us, heal us, live with us and reveal God to us. He came to die for us and be resurrected.
It’s just we didn’t live in that time period and didn’t get to see Him or be in His presence. Have you wondered how you would have reacted to Jesus if you had lived when He did? Would you have realized He was the Savior of the world? Would you have listened to the priests and Pharisees and not accepted Him as the Messiah? Would you have listened to Him preach and felt the truth of Who He is and what He came to accomplish?
We didn’t get to see Him during His lifetime here on earth, but He will return! We will see Him!
“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” (Revelation 1:7)
“They shall see his face.” (Revelation 22:4)
