For the first time in our lives, we've been told that you can't go to church. So we have been banished from that means of grace. So when the church is temporarily banned from meeting by the government, what should Christians do? How do we keep ourselves thinking biblically while our church is not meeting face to face? Well, we don't like it, but How do we resist drifting into accepting that not meeting together is okay?

How do we vaccinate ourselves against thinking that way? Well, There's nothing better than to fill our minds with the knowledge of God. If then you were raised up with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on the things on the earth, for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God?" There's the answer. It's in Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 & 3.

So it's pretty simple. Be fortified by everything God has provided for us outside the meetings of the church. Charles Spurgeon explained this by declaring that God himself is our sanctuary. Everything is not taken away. We have him.

We have the Holy Spirit. We have many means of grace offered to us. And that's why Charles Spurgeon writes, Therefore I say, thus saith the Lord God, "'although I have cast them far off among the heathen, "'and although I have scattered them among the countries, "'yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary "'in the countries they shall come.'" Ezekiel 11, 16. So while you're barred from some of the ordinary means of grace that the church provides for us, at the same time we're not deprived from every means of grace. We have the Word of God, we have the Bible, we have our family members, we have broadcasts where the Word of God is preached, We have Christian friends, we have telephones, we have email and texting and things like that.

All of these can be used as a means of grace under the direction of the Word of God.