He loves you.  Not just when the chips are down, the jig is up, the carpet is pulled from under your feet or you have fallen into miry clay, He is there through it all.  I welcome the tragedies not out of some odd masochistic tendency toward pain and tragedy, but because each time, the LORD shows up in the midst of my chaos, it strengthens my belief and trust in His Word.  However, I pray that I have become strong enough to take it on faith and no longer need to be proven His existence as He periodically saves my keester from the fire.  I do not wish to be one of those who needs miracles to believe.  We must remember that an imposter will come upon the scene who will claim to be Messiah and will use signs and wonders to trick humanity.  Pray for discernment, stay close to home and remain vigilante with oil in your lamp.

Man’s love has grown cold, governments seek to suppress their people because they have no ready solutions for the problems that confront us and people embrace their despair for they don’t know God’s peace.  You tell me your review of today’s circumstance.  Have you subjected yourself to choosing intimidation, victimization or avoidance or have you accepted that there must be a truth that lay outside the current list of options?  I tell you that God is the only way for the salvation of mankind.  Drug dealers will never support wiping out addiction, politicians will never outlaw curbs to contribution and influence pedaling and greedy men will never resolve the plight of the poor nor will bloodthirsty men allow you to take away their power or instruments of destruction.  God alone provides the path to peace and reformation by believe in and reliance upon Jesus Christ our Lord.  

2 Timothy 3:1-9  But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.