“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear…”
(Genesis 50:20-21)

O Lord, our God,

Our Good God, our Sovereign God, we see this evil around us in virus form. It’s hard to explain, it’s hard to blame anyone for it. It reminds us that this world is broken, broken from the fall, broken and awaiting its full restoration. But in the meantime, we grapple with it. We struggle with it.

Lord, even in this thing that is not good, we remember that You are still good. And even if you don’t take away the bad circumstances right away, and even if You didn’t bring them about, we trust that You are using them for our good. For Your glory. Lord, we do pray for COVID-19 to go away, for people to be healed, for those who have lost loved ones from it to be comforted.

But in all that, as we struggle, as we face difficult decisions and restrictions, we pray that You would use our circumstances now for our good - even if it’s not quite what we want it to be. But we trust that You know what our good is, and we trust You to provide, and we pray that You would grow us to be more dependent on You every day, every moment, as we go through this time. Lord, help us to see the good, help us to see You at work, use these circumstances for good.

We trust You,
Even when we can’t see all of what’s going on,
Even when we can’t see all of what you’re doing.

We pray this in Jesus’ holy name,
Amen