Today and most any day, the news has much to talk about…in spurts. A few words here and there, then they put on commercials about some drug that will help you lose weight or lower your cholesterol. It doesn’t seem to matter much about where the news comes from or who it may be about. Most of the time the few blurbs that you hear are so random until I can’t tell if it is actual news or not. It doesn’t seem to be important news, just a few words between commercials.
Nobody seems to be looking at the world and what is happening with a lens through the Bible. We are living in prophesied times and it seems that 99 percent of the world couldn’t care less. There are Christians being killed in Asia and Africa almost every day but you never hear about it, unless someone from a Christian news agency happens to report on it. Even then, most people don’t pay much attention to it.
The world around us is being controlled by a Satanic worldview but nobody seems to care about that either. The church doesn’t even talk about it much anymore. We should be at least praying for those Christians in countries where they are persecuted and killed for their faith.
One day soon, Jesus is going to come back to get those who believe in Him. Those who have died and those who are still alive will be changed in the blink of an eye and taken out of this world. When that happens, the world and those left here will know that the Bible was the Truth and that they were left behind. Some in the churches will be left, but they will know what happened. It won’t be long after this that the world will be seeking a leader who will take their fears away and bring “peace and safety”.
For a few years, everything will look good but it won’t last. Seek your salvation in Jesus Christ today because we are not promised tomorrow. He could come for the church at any time, make sure that you are a part of it before the Trumpet blows.
You have heard sermons that preach “God is Love”. How can you understand that? Well, in many ways…we can’t fully understand it because describing the emotion of love, even between spouses, is hard to do. Love as an emotion is very hard to explain other than the dictionary definition of it, and like a picture of something magnificent, even that doesn’t quite do it. If you are a parent or a grandparent you know how you feel about your child or a grandchild and by that human feeling you know what love is. But could you describe it or explain it to someone?
Humanity is God’s creation, we are His children because He created each of us with qualities that nobody else has. Each of us on Earth is an individual with the personality and abilities that God placed in us while we were being formed in the womb. His love for us is even deeper than any emotion that we can feel because His love extends into our Spirit and our soul. That is why when John describes heaven, his words fail to express the completeness of it because all of creation is loved by God. Every blade of grass, every flower, every animal, every person on Earth is infused with God’s love.
We can’t imagine a love of that depth, that is why the colors and the beauty of Heaven completely overwhelms those who have had a glimpse of it and were given a chance to tell us what it looks like. Words just aren’t enough to describe His Love that gives life to everything. It was His love that held Jesus on the cross and it was love that brought Him out of the grave. God’s Love for His Son and for us.
I pray that you will look in God’s Word and see His Love for humanity because He doesn’t want anyone to go to hell. We send ourselves to hell when we refuse to see Him for the loving Creator and Savior that He is and has always been.
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