The world is in a hullaballoo over COVID-19, otherwise known as the Corona virus. It has
reminded me of the chapter in Mere Christianity by C.S.Lewis titled, “Good Infection.” He
wrote, “Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to
get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If
you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has
them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.” We
have to be infected by, even immersed into the Trinity if we are to “have what God has.” Lewis
went on, “Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Once man is separated
from God, what can he do but wither and die?” If you are a follower of Christ, you “have it.”
You and I cannot give the life but we are carriers of the infection and hopefully we are showing
some symptoms! How could we be carriers of eternal life and not have symptoms? In our
study for Sunday, we’ll take a look at six symptoms of gospel character. Do you have it?