If My People will humble themselves and pray…

Covid-19 has devastated many countries, but none as much as the USA.
I was thinking about the Bible, having recently listened to an audio version, starting from Genesis all the way to Chronicles and 1 Kings, and thought about the things they went through in ancient times, such as Famine, pestilence, wars etc.

It occurred to me that we’ve become so dependent on science and technology that specifically involving God in our daily lives, praying, and using the word, have all become afterthoughts.

I’m not saying that we’ve put God aside, but that when problems occur our first thought is how does it work, leading to how do I fix it. For example, when your car makes a funny sound, you immediately start thinking “how can I reschedule my day, so that I can fit in a visit to my local mechanic?”
There is nothing wrong about that. Its the way the world we live in nowadays works.
Problems exist, and we have well-tested ways to solve them. Many of us still pray, and maybe we pray first thing in the morning, at night, during mealtimes, but God wants us to pray always. At all times, for all things.

At a time when America is hugely divided about the Covid-19 epidemic and what to do, Republicans battle Democrats, Politicians battle Scientists, the wealthy oppose measures to help the poor and vice versa – so the following passage popped into my head.

Most of us have read or heard of 2 Chronicles 7:13 which says:

13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

If you’re not a Christian, this may sound foolish or even if you are, you might contend that either we don’t need to turn from wicked ways as a nation, or that its a virus needing a vaccine, not a plague.
Most of us have probably scorned the current incumbent presidents’ assertion that Covid-19 will just, mysteriously disappear one day – which is on the face of it scientifically ridiculous, but what if it could indeed miraculously disappear from the nation?
Have we become too smart to believe in the impossible and seek for the miraculous.
What if God is waiting for us to turn to him for the answer, instead of entirely relying on our scientific solutions?
The epidemic is getting worse, not better.

Maybe its time for a national day of prayer and brokenness.