Hey Bridgetown Church, John Mark Comer here with the Bridgetown Daily for Monday, March 16, 2020.

Good morning or good afternoon, whatever time of day it is for you.

Welcome to week one of, there's no official name for it, but the coronavirus locked down.

And day one of a new little podcast initiative that we're just calling the Bridgetown Daily.

And I don't know, I had this idea a few days ago as I was in prayer, just thinking about

what's on the docket for the next few weeks. And we really don't know, but it's very likely

that we're all kind of locked up in home very soon. And I know a lot of people feel anxious,

and a lot of people feel scared. And I makes perfect sense. And a lot of people are under quarantine

at home and don't feel safe to go out with COVID-19 and all of that. So we thought maybe just a short

five, seven minute meditation thought from scripture or a quote or from the life of a saint,

with a little prayer exercise, just coming into your podcast every single morning from Bridgetown

Church to remember that you're not alone. Even if you are alone in your home or apartment,

you're not alone. You're a part of a community of followers of Jesus from our city and from all

over the world. So as we think about kind of our first little meditation, you know, the scripture

that keeps coming to my mind the last few days is Revelation chapter one. Now, Revelation may be

the last place you would expect to look to for comfort in a kind of scary time. Revelation is

literally the apocalypse in Greek. And some people call it the apocalypse and it's full of

wars and rumors of war. It's literally full of plague and famine and economic woe. And so again,

Revelation is likely the last place you look for comfort in a time of fear. But actually, it was

written to comfort followers of Jesus who were facing violence and death and persecution

under the Roman Empire as well as wars and rumors of wars and plague. This is the ancient

Mediterranean world where stuff like this was very normal. It was the rule, not the exception to the

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