And now a word from your sponsor.

Today is brought to you by the unfathomable power and grace of God. There are no co-sponsors assisting Him.

You are experiencing life at this moment because the giver of all good things enables you to draw breath. You did nothing to deserve this day. You did not earn it. Today is a gift and God will allow you to do whatever you wish with it.

God is patient. God is slow to anger. He listens as you lavish praise for your life on other things. He hears you celebrate the compassion of your political leaders. He listens as you give credit to medical science for your health. He hears you testify that a vaccine will protect you. He watches you scramble for advice about how to extend your life. He sees you analyzing the data, tracking the statistics and calculating the odds that you’ll wake up again tomorrow, while ignoring the reason you woke up today.

You are not alive because you took precautions. You are not alive because you made wise choices. You are not alive because you voted correctly. You are not alive because you have been vaccinated. You are alive because God gifted you with life. God sponsored another day on Earth.

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

– 1 Peter 1:4