What is happening to the world today is quite sad, people all over are getting sick and losing their battle to this pandemic. But in the midst of all these several things have been proven true, among them that there is good and evil, there are leaders and those who do nothing, there are those who help and those that complain, there are heroes and that there is social injustice.
GOOD and EVIL
There are a lot who help and encourage other people to help, they form groups to mobiles the sending of relief good or in gathering donations. Then there are those who take advantage of the panic and fear and scam people of their money like pretending to be from banks and asking bank information, there are those who steal the relief goods and some even hurt medical frontliners.
LEADERS
You see the leaders on the streets, getting hands-on with relief operations, thinking outside the box on how to help their constituents, employees and congregation. They don't do a lot of speeches or social media posts to glorify themselves but instead use it to rally the people to help and be transparent with what they are doing; publishing the goods to be provided to the people so that no one gets accused of shortchanging the relief goods or that others benefited from them. Leaders who assure the people of their commitment, of how human they are and how strong-willed they are to provide a solution to the current situation. Whilst the managers, sit back and delegate and just shout orders and some do not even do anything. Politically, a Senator works for the country, a Congressman for his district, a governor for his province, a Mayor for his city, but there are those who just kept quiet and let the President handle all things or gave everything to the task force assigned. In this time of crisis, it is all hands on deck, look at the leaders of the business, donating hundreds of millions of Pesos for relief operations, to feed the frontliners, to feed the displaced workers, to provide for hospital needs, while the other "leaders" are not even visible.
SOCIAL INJUSTICE
The rich, the middle class and the poor- who do you think is better off?
The rich will not have any financial worry in case they get sick or if they will run out of provisions, they can afford.
The poor will not have problems because there are protocols in place by the government to provide for them whether there is a crisis or not. Each city has its own feeding programme, livelihood programmes, free medical treatment at health centres and even hospitalisation. Currently, they are on the top of the list of relief goods distribution by the local government, especially at the barangay level.
The middle class - technically the poor middle class, they work, they need to work some in foreign countries leaving their families behind so that their children can go to good schools so that they can save for retirement, so they can provide for their families. They pay mortgages, utility bills, groceries, car lease, some do daily commute and if they don't work they will not earn a salary to pay for all these. And let us not forget the taxes that the middle class pays for, taxes that go to the government so that government can provide for the poor and for the road repairs so that the rich can drive their luxury cars on. I am not being cynical, this is the truth. So who helps the middle class, they do not get free health care, some are subsidised by HMO card provided by the companies they work for, but if the middle class are self-employed they don't have HMO cards.
So who is more affected by the current pandemic, I just gave my point of view as a working middle class myself.
BUT, in all of these you can still hear and see people complain and ridicule the government, some say such bad things as if they can do better. My thinking is, with the current government officials we have and if people are complaining, imagine what the other candidates would do or have done if they were the ones who won the last elections.
People forget why these leaders were are the ones who are incumbent right now, personally, it is God's will. God has His reasons, we may not understand it but He has a plan on why they are there. That is why we should respect our current leaders because they are all God's chosen ones. So disrespecting these leaders is disrespecting God's choice.
In the story of David, he was persecuted by King Saul because Saul envied him, Saul tried to kill David twice by throwing a spear at him. During Davids escape in the forest and mountains he tice had the chance to kill Saul and stop him from pursuing and persecuting him but he did not, and this was his answer to his men;
1 Samuel 24:6-7 New Living Translation (NLT) 6 He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this to my lord the king. I shouldn’t attack the Lord’s anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him.” 7 So David restrained his men and did not let them kill Saul.
After Saul had left the cave and gone on his way,
After Saul had left the cave and gone on his way,
In the midst of this current crisis, let us stop grumbling and support our government's efforts by staying at home, be with our families and pray for all the frontliners and victims. It is the least we can do, let us not jump on that political bandwagon but instead do ur part to help, if you cannot donate your time, money or services, we can all donate and share our prayers.
I chose to write this down as I am so frustrated with the things on social media, one of the reasons why I deleted my original Facebook account because of all the fake news, politics and showbiz news. Now I have made my social media account as a platform to share God's Word to all my friends and t those who can see my account, in one way or the other even if you do not comment on my posts, you have seen and read the Word of GOD.
God bless everyone, stay safe and let us be good to one another.
