 This last Sunday something happened that has never really happened in the history of Christianity. People abandoned their church buildings, instead stayed at home and watched a live stream. Is this a good thing? And where do Christians find comfort in the midst of the coronavirus? Hey guys, what's up? It's Isaac David and this is The Daily Disciple, where I help you follow Jesus daily. First off, I just want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. Thank you so much for supporting me guys. This last couple weeks actually I was kind of temporarily laid off of my job, so that's bad. But the Patreon support that I have on Patreon is just amazing. It's like amazing. So thank you so much and if you can help me out at all, head on over to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple and give you know whatever it is five dollars a month or ten dollars. It would be so appreciated. Thanks guys. So with all that kind of, I just told you I was gonna lay off my job temporarily, hopefully temporarily. I've had a lot more time to think about just the whole like happenings of the world. I know last week I put out a different kind of video that wasn't really related to the coronavirus, but at this point I kind of want to address it because it's crazy. Everyone is affected on earth and if you're not kind of talking about it then people are like, are you living in the same world we're living in because it affects everyday life really and a huge example of that was just going to church on Sunday. My church was canceled. Many other churches in Winnipeg, the city that I live in were canceled and so people were forced to either go to well pretty much just go to like live streams and they have a live stream in their own house and so that's what my family did. So like okay this is what we're in for now for the next couple weeks at least if not couple months. This coronavirus thing, this is going to change a lot of things because a lot of small churches I've seen that would never really think about doing a live stream of any kind are now kind of branching into doing more stuff with technology, with YouTube, with social medias to stay engaged with people and you see some of these people you know some churches already jumped onto this already giving resources online already making YouTube videos already doing live streams but now this is forcing a lot of churches to get on board with that stuff and I think that's good. We have to be careful. We ought not get too complacent or treat this live stream thing like it is ideal because it's not the fact that we can't worship all together in one place lifting our voices to God the fact that we can't see each other's faces and be you know in communication with one another encouragement in that way there's a certain amount of just disconnect that that happens with kind of the live stream thing it's not it's not ideal it is good it is a blessing from God and it's God's kind of common grace that we're all able to use this technology for his glory. I think it's a great thing but let's let's pray that's continue to ask God that he might you know bring us back to the time where we're able to meet together. Okay I want to do something a little bit different. I want to read to you guys an entry in my diaries called Diaries of the in-between. I post them on Instagram so if you follow me on Instagram you may have seen this but I think it's right on to what we're talking about today in terms of the coronavirus in terms of how do we find comfort and peace in the midst of this so this is from March 17th 2020. This morning I ventured into a new book of the Bible of my daily reading Second Corinthians. In light of recent events in our world I was struck by the unmistakable relevance of this passage. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforts us in our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God for we share abundantly in Christ's suffering so through Christ we abundantly share in his comfort as well. Second Corinthians 1 3 to 5. God is the God of all comfort but our comfort isn't based and our peace isn't based on the circumstance that we live in. You know if life was easy then we could do that we could just be comfortable in our circumstance and that's where we could find that but in times like this hey look things aren't that great we go through challenges a lot of people are going through worse financial challenges that you know I'm talking about the fact that I'm out of a job right now. People are going through worse financial difficulties than I am and so it's like there's difficulty here in our circumstances there's great anxiety so where do we find this is it in our circumstances no it is in Christ because comfort is actually gift from God that he gives to us that's founded in who he is and the fact that he is unchanging and not in our changing circumstances so when we can receive that comfort from him by his Holy Spirit it's actually up to us to give abundantly to other people that same comfort and we're sharing that and how we share that is to share God's love with people point people to God where that comfort can and that peace can be found as well as just honestly our physical resources I think that's a huge part of just being the body of Christ is imaging God on this earth and what does God want us to do he wants to share this comfort so whether it's emotional or physical comfort if we can share you know toilet paper if you if you were one of the people that stole the toilet not stole but bought up all the toilet paper maybe you can see if one of your neighbor needs one or your family members reach out to other people this is a time that we need to be coming together and I know there's a lot of I can only already sense some kind of conflict brewing within you know even you're with your family all day in your house or whatever there can be conflict there or I can sense some conflict in terms of people's standards of what's safe and what's not in terms of getting spreading the virus and maybe there's some be some conflict conflict there between brothers and sisters sorry for the banging I am in a in a home with lots of other people right now but like how can we look to Christ even in the midst of that conflict that may be brewing and just seek peace and seek togetherness I think that's that's a huge thing that I'm thinking about right now you may be overwhelmed right now and some people say oh God will never give you more than you can handle well the fact is that's totally wrong right God will give you more than you can handle so then you are forced to rely on him right if we just had everything we could handle on our own we never need to look to God and in circumstances in times like this we understand look we're anxious we're scared what's going to happen there's uncertainty but we know ultimately we can look to God for that strength that we need and that is my encouragement for you today thanks so much for watching guys if you enjoyed today's video I know it's a little bit of a different setup but I just wanted to get on here quick and shoot but if you enjoyed today's video give it a like down below I'm really thankful that I get to make these videos for you guys and if you want to support me on patreon there's a link in the description here and you can head on over there be humongous blessing you don't even know but thank you so much for watching I keep saying that and but it's true it's true um and yeah you can follow me on instagram or tiktok whatever I'm creating a lot of videos on tiktok right now usually like six a day at this point I know it's crazy but uh you can if you want just really quick uh encouragement on there check me out okay god bless guys