Does this world make sense today? In many ways, it doesn’t. So many unusual things are happening everywhere that it is difficult to make sense of them all. Reason and “common sense” don’t seem to have any sway over people today. Life is hard in some places and more challenging in others. Drought, wars, and pestilence are causing so many deaths in the world and causing many to fear and tremble, worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Anxiety is rampant, and people worry about many things, not knowing what is coming.
I believe the reason for all of this anxiety and worry is that people have not looked to the One Who has told us about this time. God had His prophets write many prophecies about the time that we are living in. Today, people are more concerned with their profiles on social media than they are about their immortal souls. God has laid out in the Bible every piece of the puzzle pertaining to today and tomorrow. It takes faith and prayer to understand much of it, but it can be understood.
I pray for all of those who might read this and wonder what I’m talking about. Seek the answers to your worries in God’s Word. Give your heart to Him and be saved from the wrath that is coming soon. I know that it has been a bit more than 2,000 years since Jesus was crucified but the day is coming when He will call the church home to Himself. Then the whole world will fear what is coming, especially those who have been in church but never gave their lives to Jesus. Don’t wait because we don’t know the day or the hour that He will come.
Jesus said for us to “tell the gospel to the world”; if we don’t let the people into the church and if we don’t go into the world…how can we fulfill His command?
Did you thank God for waking up this morning? I did. Why? Because none of us are “given” tomorrow or even the rest of today. God gives us our time on Earth and He knows the number of those days…we don’t. No one is guaranteed to be alive tomorrow let alone next week or next month. That is one of the reasons that Jesus said that we are supposed to carry our cross each day we follow Him. We crucify our old self on that cross daily and walk beside Him. At least that’s what we are supposed to do if we have been born-again.
There are many people in America and around the world who attend church at least once or twice a month and they know about Jesus and His offer of salvation…yet they haven’t accepted Him as their Savior. The go through the motions and even read the Bible a little but they think they’re saved so why do they need Jesus? After all, they’ve bought into Satan’s lie: “You have plenty of time to do that later, you can wait until next month or even next year.”
So many people have done this until most of the polls show that the number of actual born-again Christians is probably around fifteen to eighteen percent of America rather than the seventy percent who believe in God. Satan knows and believes in God and Jesus too, he just won’t serve them. He knows they exist and that every word in the Bible is true but he won’t give his life to serve God.
John 3:16-17 says it all: 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
I pray that whoever reads this will seek Him to know Him as their Lord and Savior. The world doesn’t have much more time regardless of what you hear on the “news” shows.
The problems that we face today are the ones that mankind has created. We are not experiencing “global warming” because of our influence on the natural world, the world is going through these “stages”, if you will, because God has said these things will happen at the end of the age. The problems that mankind has created are our own hubris and our own silly technological ideas that the future is going to be bound up in technology. God’s Word tells us that the “end times” will be populated by wonders and marvels. Those wonders and marvels were fantastic to the writers at the time but they are fairly normal to us today.
If you look at how far we have advanced in the last century it is truly astounding. Just consider the way we get around. In 1910 there were a few cars around but most of the world still got from one place to another on horses or by trains. There were a few telephones but most of our communication was by telegraph or by letters and the newspaper.
Pray for our nation and this world because we are truly coming to the end of the age. The news and all of the problems that we see on it are only going to get worse between now and the day the Church is taken up. I pray that you will seek the Lord as your Savior before that day comes because the problems that we have today will pale in comparison to what will happen during the Tribulation.
Read His Words and then obey His commands. Belief is an action word. The proof of your faith and your belief is your actions and your life. Following God takes commitment, faith in Him, and belief in Jesus for your salvation.
Growing in your faith and in your walk takes time in God’s Word and prayer so you can gain wisdom from His Word. Anything you don’t understand in the Bible can be cleared up with a prayer. Just ask the One Who inspired the writers to put it on paper or papyrus and He will give you the meaning you seek.
God loved us so much that He sent Jesus to die for our sins. All we have to do is believe in Him and His sacrifice to be in heaven with Him, just like the criminal that was crucified with Him.
This was from 2017. These numbers have gone down since then. I pray that anyone who reads this will seek to know for sure about their salvation through Jesus Christ.
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