Isaiah 26:20-21 TLB
Go home, my people, and lock the doors! Hide for a little while until the Lord’s wrath against your enemies has passed.
[21] Look! The Lord is coming from the heavens to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will no longer hide the murderers. The guilty will be found.

How did you cope with the lockdown? Although they say the worst of the pandemic is over, we can see the ravage all around us.
Life, as we knew it before the inception of covid, is forever transformed.
Lockdown is the emergency measure or condition in which people are temporarily prevented from entering or leaving a restricted area to contain and prevent the spread of something.
Everyone has their Covid lockdown experience and story, what’s yours?
Everywhere was locked down, including the one place that would have brought solace to many, the churches or religious activities that identify and motivate so many of us Christians to keep going. Unfortunately, so many Christians did indeed get lockdown- for some, it meant since there were no weekly activities to attend and participate in, their life as Christians got lockdown too, meaning they stopped every personal religious and spiritual activity of theirs.
Go on Paul says, walk out your salvation (your own, not others) with fear and trembling—Considering the difficulty of life, and the danger of the walk. If you do not watch, pray, and continually depend on God, your enemies will surprise you, and your light and life will become extinct, right now, so much light and life has gone out both physically and spiritually in the last couple of years.
Meanwhile, life goes on and lessons are learned. What have you learnt from the Covid? What did you use the opportunity of the lockdown to gain?
Come, my people say the Lord, enter your “homes”—with a confident expectation of the power of God to deliver us from the destruction of the pandemic. If we expect God to deliver us, we must keep seeking Him in the secret place lockdown created for us.
While you’re hiding in your chambers for a little while, redeem the times by spending as much of it growing your spirit man. Did you use it to get deeper in the word of God, get to know Him better or spend it with your family?
As God’s people, we have nothing to worry about or to fear in every situation we experience, as we see, He brought us through the pandemic. John 20:19-23 talks of a lockdown, but one necessitated by fear, the fear that overwhelmed the disciples after Jesus died. They locked all the doors where they were huddled together because of fear, fear of the unknown and from losing their master and friend. The Lord is always in the centre of our fears, as verse 19 states-Jesus came and stood among them in “lockdown,” with the doors looked.
The Lord who entered lockdown with them, was with us in lockdown as we sought Him and know Him more.
Revelation 3:20 paints a picture of Jesus standing, knocking at the door, signifying that the doors are locked, but are we willing to open and allow Him in?
The world was in lockdown, but our hearts, mouths, bibles, and altars were not locked down.
We all need peace in these times of trouble, the peace found only when we abide in Christ and allow His words to abide in us.
COVID-19 taught us that position, power, wealth, throne, and popularity are not eternal, only temporary, let us seek the Lord always, the indignation has passed!
Shalom