COMMON SENSE: That President Trump has caught COVID-19, despite being in the world’s most protected bubble, provides us with a teachable moment about two important issues. To begin with, we like to believe we control our situation personally and nationally, but we don’t. No matter how many precautions we take, we cannot control our environment. Although the Left likes to believe we can, championing the belief that government is the answer to everything, it isn’t.
When you get right down to it, as human beings, we are frail. The belief that we are all-powerful is an illusion. People of faith know this. We understand it well. God is in charge, not us. He is all-powerful and omniscient; we are not. This is why we bow our knee to Him and to no one else. Those on the Left do not understand this at all. They never will.
The second issue providing a teachable moment is our response to the President’s illness. When I heard the news, I was devastated but, along with many others, I participated in a prayer meeting about Trump’s health. This just seemed like the natural thing to do. Had it been Joe Biden, I wouldn’t have been devastated, but I certainly would have prayed for his recovery as well.
Those on the Left, by way of contrast, chose a heartless response. They ridiculed the President for getting sick. On social media and on network news, they have mocked him for allowing it to happen, calling him a fool. That they would choose to be this callous doesn’t speak well for them, does it? But it also wasn’t surprising, was it?
Taking a step back, seeing the dramatic difference in how people of faith respond versus the response from those from the Left, we need to ask ourselves what kind of a nation we want to be? Do we want to follow our founding fathers, who universally ascribed to the Judeo-Christian worldview, or do we want to embrace the misanthropic hatefulness of the Nihilists, Socialists and Communists? It’s an important question. Being 2020, we will have this question answered for us in a month. I hope we choose well. Meanwhile, I will continue to pray multiple times a day for our President’s speedy recovery.
—Jack Watts