Hey, everybody. This is Father John Ricardo with Acts 29. And in the middle of all the craziness

and the uncertainty that's going on right now, it seems from our perspective as a team that it's

worth using these days to reflect in a more deliberate way on the scriptures every day, which

for many of us now is the only spiritual food that we're receiving. And so we're going to do a special

podcast series simply entitled, Be Not Afraid, God's Word in Uncertain Times. And we'll try to post

something every day, usually reflecting on the scriptures, so that we can listen in on what God is

trying to say to us in these days. A day that we will all hopefully see,

and soon, what is justice, and what a you and I owe God? Those are the three things that come to mind

today, March 20th Friday, as I reflect on the day of the week, what's going on in the world that we're living in, and the scriptures that the church puts before us here today.

So first, a day that we will all hopefully see and soon.

I know right now the news is talking about encouraging reports of potential vaccines or remedies

or antibodies or whatever the case might be to bring a solution to the spread of this pandemic,

the coronavirus. But imagine, if you will, that while all that's taking place, it's all attributable to one person, just a man or a

woman. Imagine if today, as we're driving home from work, although most of us aren't driving

home from anywhere, imagine as you're sitting in your living room or in the kitchen and you're

preparing dinner tonight, the news comes across that a solution has been found

and it's been found by this person, this man or this woman. That person's name would be known by

everybody. She or he would be on every major news show. Their name would be plastered all over the

front page of every newspaper. They'd be the person of the year

in Time magazine. And all of that would be not only appropriate, it would be right. It would be just,

we could say. So what's justice? We're a world that's often hung up on justice. The ancients used to define justice,

and we continue, I think, to define justice in this way. Justice is a habit whereby a person renders to each one his or her do with constant and perpetual will. In other words, Joseph Piper in his book,

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