There are many days that I ask these questions. Not so much to anyone in particular but sometimes I direct them at God Himself. How bad is it going to get? How much will we have to put up with? How many are going to die too young or for no apparent reason? The unfortunate answer is that God knows the answer to all of these questions. Sometimes good people…even young people die for no apparent reason. He knows how bad it will get before He steps in to take His Bride away. We don’t and I am grateful for not knowing.
Why do I want to be ignorant of the numbers or the dates or the depravity that is coming? Because I need to exercise my faith in God because He is in control even when it looks like He isn’t or when it looks like He doesn’t care…because He does. He cares more than any of us can understand.
Remember, He puts each molecule in your DNA, so He knows everything about every person on the planet, whether you believe in Him or not.
Please, seek to know Jesus as your Savior before the church is taken up. Because the world will change drastically after the Holy Spirit is gone.
If you have given your heart and your life to Jesus, you should be going to church to learn more about your Savior and your part in His Kingdom. Does a preacher tell you these things? No, but studying the Bible does and you usually do that from listening to a preacher’s sermon from a scripture in the Bible that God has placed in his heart to preach from. If you are trying to learn your place in God’s Kingdom, that is the place to start. Whether you hear it from a “TV preacher” or from a local church doesn’t matter but you can ask questions when you are at a local church.
The Bible says that we should not “forsake the gathering of the saints” and if you are a born-again Christian then you are a saint of God’s Kingdom. Many people seem to think that they can worship from a boat while fishing or from a tree-stand while hunting and in some small way you can appreciate God’s Creation while doing these things but it is not true worship.
Worship is a state of mind and heart that you cannot achieve while hunting or fishing. You can be in a prayerful state of mind while driving down the highway because I do this every time I’m on the road but that isn’t the same as worshiping the Lord while learning from His Word. As His adopted children, we are supposed to learn as much as possible about Him as we can and the only way to do this is by studying the Bible and most of us need a Bible-study leader to help us to do this. It isn’t a skill that we are given when we become believers. Growing in your life as a Christian, deepening the relationship with your Savior can only be done by studying the Bible.
Get into it a chapter at a time. Pray about what you have read and if you have questions, find a pastor or a friend who knows Jesus and ask them to help you understand. The Bible is a book that can teach you and me so much about God and about Jesus and what our responsibility is in our walk with Jesus every day. Even if you have read the Bible all the way through, read it again because the Holy Spirit will teach you even more about what you have already read. Each verse will show you something that you didn’t see or understand before and you will grow in your walk as you learn more from Him each day.
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