COVID-19: Fear of Infection

As we are all social-distancing, quarantining, meeting in small groups and sanitizing, we are focused on the fear of the outside getting in: the fear-filled word: Pandemic.
As COVID-19 shuts down countries, economies, worship and schools, we think:

Where is God in all of this?  
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God has always been present in history's large catastrophic events.....working for His glory and our ultimate good in Christ.
1. God used a large famine to move Jacob and his sons to Egypt where they were reunited with their lost brother, Joseph.
2. God used a nation-wide drought to bring Elisha to the widow's house to save her family.
3. God used a famine to drive Ruth and Naomi back into Israel so that Ruth could meet and marry Boaz, fulfilling God's plan for the Davidic and Messianic lines.
4. God used the capturing of Israel  to bring Esther's family into a foreign land, so that she could marry the King and save the genocide of the Jewish people. 
3. God used a regional census, upsetting the entire area, to bring Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem so that Jesus' birth would fulfill prophecy.
And the list goes on .  God does not see us less when world-wide terrors are alive.  In fact, the dark background of these large black swaths enhances even more the light of God's work in His people. When the question comes up, "Does God care?"  The answer is always, "Yes!".   We can claim this verse as both a cry for help and reassurance of God's care:  Psalm 57:1  says:

​"Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, For my soul takes refuge in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge Until destruction passes by."

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