“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will gointo such and such a townand spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mistthat appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (James 4:13-17) ESV

What was on your mind on New Year’s day 2020? a plethora of football games? a holiday away from work? time with the family? Like most Americans probably one or all of these had crossed your mind. And probably the furthest thing from your mind was concern about a newly hatched disease—known as “coronavirus.” This flu-like virus emerged in the vicinity of the fish market in Wuhan China, a sprawling city of 11 million people in Eastern China. The fish market was closed on New Year’s Day for cleaning. Later evidence was found that the virus had left the market and begun to spread into the city of Wuhan. Soon hundreds of deaths in China and other parts of the world became the subject of grim reports. Now several weeks into the spread of the virus, the United States economy has been virtually shut down in an effort to quell the further spread of the virus.