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Moments

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If I divide them into moments, they are so remarkable it dispels concern and worry.  Trying to eat the entire slice of life all at once activates panic, frustration, fear and all those overwhelming, daily attributes.  But when I look at what He allowed me to do today in the midst of an environment I have been realistically convinced could never be used for Kingdom Purpose, I am overjoyed.  The living of purpose produces irresistible and unmistakable JOY, joy that possesses the greatest magnetism for Christ.  They saw me today, and because I saw their pain, loneliness and recognized their searching hearts, they asked and I answered willingly.  So, much pain created by the brutality of this world and the only salve is Jesus.

My wounds have been washed clean, my pain healed, trespasses removed and forgiven.  The window this has allowed is that all those who see the light, desperately seeking similar freedom, are beginning to ask openly for directions.  What a gift I have been given that I might through my simple testimony, love for Christ and willingness to share the Gospel move them one step closer to relationship with God.  This was a day of fulfillment, a day that explains that meaning we have all sought throughout the history of man.  My purpose is to see their pain and tell them where to find rest then remind them real love exists.  They crave relationship with Him and they need encouragement, understanding and love from me.  Today, it all took shape, and God once again reminded me that He has never left me, even for a step.

Some think me foolish and turn away, some see foolish, unbridled joy and wish to know its  origin.  My happiness is not assured for it requires constant maintenance, but my Joy is overflowing, catching fire  and spilling on everyone with whom I come into contact.  I am sorry that I have hurt anyone when intending to tell them truth.  Forgive me Lord for being slow to surrender, thank You for my freedom.  In Jesus Holy and Precious Name.

A time such as this…

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Why do I believe that I have been given my current opportunities to spread the Good News of Christ and the Hope of salvation, redemption and sanctification before God?  Do I feel that I will somehow be spared the repercussions of a world increasingly hostile to Christians, simply because I am perceived innocuous?  Do I believe that my passivity will garner me acceptance, favor and even safety when wickedness abounds?  The mob is ready, primed for an activist leader, directing, commanding and feeding their rage.  Do any of us in a position to declare the truth believe that there will be a better, more appropriately suited time for us to make a difference?  The fields are primed for planting, it is the season of work, I pray that the laborers all hear the call.  What then does fulfilling God’s Will for my life look like, if not, standing up for righteousness, truth, justice, mercy and grace?

It is not okay to deceive my Brothers and Sisters.  It is not okay for me to ignore your pleas, just to please my own desire to fulfill my manifest vision for my sphere of opportunity.  It is not okay for me to stand by and hold the coats of the wicked as they cast stones at the innocent.  It is not okay, in my feverish passion to want someone proclaimed guilty because of my anger or displeasure.  The question is will I be of courage and know that God will arrive or will I retreat, remain quiet or hope to blend into my surroundings?  What do I call blessings anyway?  Are they simply the sweet, bountiful abundant pleasures of soul and spirit or do they include such things as toil, and battle and care for the innocent?  Are my blessings about me or are they about God and the love He gave me to share with those who have none?

This life and my station are not about my edification, comfort and position in history, they are about what I may do to further the Kingdom of God, serving my fellow man in his endeavor to rise above his animalistic tendencies.  If not for God’s salvation I would most likely have never have recovered the self inflicted wounds of my wretchedness.  Amazing Grace is just that and I must be ever mindful that it is for God’s Purposes that I have been recovered from the muck and mire.  Lord, I cannot convince them of their errant steps, but you can. I cannot give to them a salvation, sweeter than breath and life itself, but You can.  I cannot fill their hearts with hope when this world drains them of the last vestiges of courage, but You can.  Lord let me share with them the only thing that can make this whole thing worth while, You.  Those who call upon the Name of the Lord, shall be saved.  That name, that sweet name of Jesus Christ, the Power to overcome.

Driving passion

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If passions rule my actions then whose passion?  Is it God’s eternal passion for the lost of this world to find their way home to salvation and relationship?  Is it passion for this or that movement to create prosperity for this group or remove power for that group?  Is it for gain, monetary or treasured artifacts to include ourselves in the select few capable of chasing their dreams indefinitely?  Is it to fill the houses of power with people who look and act like me, men and women who will further my agenda or national intentions?  Or are my passions synonymous with God’s Will?

Do I look to feed the hungry, not only their bellies but that empty hole within their spirits that may only be filled by Christ?  Do I seek to Father the orphaned, showing them love of God so that they too may find their way home to our Eternal Father God?  Do I seek to prop up, protect and look after the elderly, especially the widowed, so that they may find the honorable way to share their wisdom, gifts and love with those who may tremendously benefit?  Do I look to protect the innocence of the young and those who cannot avoid corruption?  Do I scream at the coming night in the Name of Jesus Christ, shining the light of His righteousness in to dark places, forcing principalities to scurry?  Do I stand for God’s passion for the lost world, proclaiming His love and forgiveness to those who would repent and be saved?  What passions drive my heart, my song, my walk?  Do I follow reason, justice, mercy and overwhelming kindness overall or in truth do I serve the call of my passionate flesh?

The enemy is easy to combat when you look to the transparency of his passions.  Wherever deception exists it is made to cloud evidence of ungodly passion.  The truth needs no protective shield, deceptive veil or misty mechanisms.  The truth is spoken freely without regard for political position or passion.  It is wrong to watch my fellow humans go hungry, be poor, but it is worse yet to leave them without the HOPE OF CHRIST and eternity.  Follow the passions of man and you will see what drives each initiative.  Follow the passions of false teachers and the treasured tale of chasing gold will become painfully evident beyond the deception of their public words.  Follow the passion of warriors who would kill the innocent for the completion of their cause and you will find naught but wickedness.  Speak truth and consider passions dangerous, for many have been killed or made poor in the name of manly passions when God would see them set free and prospered.  Lord Jesus guide the passions of my heart to serve Your desire for mankind’s salvation.

The day!

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Am I preparing for Christ’s return for His Church, tonight?  If not then I fail to comprehend, accept or contemplate the principle of imminence.  I also have become determined to overlook or ignore that Jesus continued to offer preparedness parables to the faithful.  Jesus, although He continually expressed the need to spread the Gospel, so that the lost would find salvation, He repeatedly offered teaching regarding, “being ready” to the saints.  Being ready for what, you ask?  Thank you for asking.  Being ready for His return for the Church.

Jesus’ second coming will be nothing if but spectacular, coming down from the clouds, the faithful behind, to speak into existence the level judgment of the disobedient and salvation to the Jews.  Why then did He continually remind the saints that “He would come like a thief in the night”?  Clearly He referred to two differing events, one a return to snatch the Church from the judgment to come, which they were not designated to suffer, the next a dynamic entrance to take back the deed to the Earth and pass judgment on the wicked.

The Lord will at some point come to remove the faithful.  I prefer to understand and obey His repeated calls to “readiness” as a Christian.  Current evidence in the powerlessness of the Church unfortunately cries out to the absence of the Holy Spirit within those who believe they are within the Body of Christ.  Since the Lord continually called us to have “oil in our lamps”, being filled, so that we might be found “ready” when the Master comes, then the answer to this questioned readiness resides in the filling of the Holy Spirit.  This was one of the Lord’s most frequent topics when teaching to believers.  It is essential that we seek to understand this teaching and take adequate steps in faith to making our hearts, minds and spirits ready for His coming.

I look forward to the Day of the Lord.  Not because wickedness will finally be dealt a resounding blow by the Creator, but because this world will finally accept that there is one Creator, who is the rightful ruler of all universes, to include mankind.  I weep the deception ever present in today’s discussion, I mourn those lost to pursue magic potions, divination and escapism, I crave a day when the truth is no longer argued and we can get about the business of doing the work without question.  I want to serve.  I don’t want to be king.  I don’t want to be God or be honored for how well I’ve worshiped His Glory.  That is where satan’s travesty began, probably accepting glory for how well he worshiped God.  My pride is just as dangerous.  May I lead you to the Cross where you may understand God’s eternal Glory and bask in His righteousness.  May I only exist to encourage you and love you in your travails.

I am sorry that the terrorist’s quest for peace with God has left them destitute, angry and misshapen.  I pray that the Lord our God, touches their hearts in such a way that the veil of hate is removed from their eyes and they may finally see their sin, so that they may be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus Christ the King.  I am sorry that God’s enemies had to suffer death at the hand of our soldiers, I only wish that they had found Jesus reflected in our hearts, words and faces before they found it necessary to enter in war against us.  May the fire of heaven rain down upon the enemies of God and may we find it in our hearts to forgive those who have brought misfortune, pain and death to our families.  Heal us Father, take from us the bitterness that leads to rage and separation from Your Everlasting Love.  Grant this Earth Peace.  Lord rebuke Your enemies if it is in Your Will to do so, and let us love them enough to forgive them and change their hearts forever through the Power of Your Love for mankind.  In Jesus’ Name.

No shows for battle

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Atheists or agnostics will by nature leave God as a possibility for man’s history out of any documentary, training or teaching program.  Scientists, will review any experiment, purposely excluding God as a catalyst/answer, in order to produce their singly blind results.  History cannot be told in its entirety without reflection and incorporation of what the Bible says about the periods, times, motivations and influences God had upon humanity.  Yet we as Christians have determined, in our complacency, to turn over the schools and universities to atheists, agnostics and believers in scientific evolutionism, totally expecting them to include God as a possibility in the list of options for our origins.  Who will fight for the truth, or even smaller the inclusion of God as an option for man’s origin, if not Christians?  The answer is no one.  If God sent us as His ambassadors to humanity and we decline to do our job, what results shall follow?

Do we truly expect our children and young adults to learn critical thinking without telling them all the possibilities?  This is akin to telling young minds that red is by far the most beautiful color, while never showing them green, or yellow or blue.  Atheists, just as our current administration do not trust other humans to make up their own minds.  They, as with all tyrants throughout history, believe that they know the best way for people to live.  This type of arrogance requires that any alternate explanations, plans or ideas be eradicated.  They must at all costs eliminate God from the list of possibilities, for His truth threatens to rip, topple or dissolve their illusion of perfection through ideology.  If you don’t believe me, look to history.

This is a deceptive sham perpetrated by the enemies of God, subjecting millions of people to exposure to a damnation that was never meant for any of us.  God is absolutely correct and true in Romans 1, where he tells us that everyone knows the truth of God and that when they reject that truth they are turned over to the decadence of their own thinking.  Furthermore, they must then convert everyone around them to their skewed view, even one, remaining contrariety threatens to topple the entire, precariously enabled apple cart and must be stopped, diminished, ostracized and eventually destroyed at all cost.  Isn’t this the only explanation for the passion intrinsic to their Need to remove God from the list of options we are teaching children?

Why else would they care if children were taught about God as an option unless it is in simple expression an absolute antidote to reconstructive history, big bang theories and evolutionary chance as the genesis of mankind.  In their overwhelming desire to control or suppress thought they have shown their fear of God.  They seek to escape God’s judgment, therefore they must deny that God even exists, thinking themselves free of His sovereign authority.  Yet humanists, atheist, agnostics and scientist will openly parade around in acceptance of satan’s existence as fact.  How can satan exist without God first having created him?  This is why they cannot allow our children the opportunity at a rational discussion about God, for in this discussion the only logical conclusion becomes, God is the only rational explanation.

Lord God, Father, Your Word clearly states that hell was designed for satan and his disobedient angels.  Father, I pray that those who will see the tragedy of their thinking will turn to You in faith and trust, being saved from that destiny intended for others.  Father protect our children, armor up Christians prepared to stand in the face of adversity and share the Truth of Your Gospel, so that many might be saved.  Let young minds openly investigate, discuss and voluntarily come to rational conclusion about a relationship with You.  Let people see that it is not Christianity that desperately wishes to control the conversation but those who MUST disprove your existence to free themselves of accountability for sin and disbelief.  We humbly await Your return Lord Jesus and hope to be found as faithful servants, having obeyed your direction and done the Kingdom Works You have prepared for each of us.  Lord rebuke the deceiver if it is Your Will to do so.

Quiet Voice

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Does God show up in your life?  Do you generally see Him only in actions, answered prayer or do you feel His guidance in the those quiet, truthful, loving or rebuking moments?  How has your faith grown, looking for a measure, empirical response, perhaps miracles or have you gone seeking God’s Will in His word.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord.  Does that line from the Bible resonate within you?  If the Bible says that your faith will be increased by being washed in His word, why then would you be looking for evidence of God’s Will through manna, birds, finances or floods?  Isn’t obedience about following the direction of an authority to whom you have willfully surrendered?

I love when God shows up in song, circumstances and situational salvation, but I crave those moments when I hear and positively respond to His quiet leading within my heart.  Think on that for a moment.  When the Jews had been oppressed for four hundred years and were set free into the desert to find the promise land they shook their fists at God demanding miracles.  Why were they in the desert, because of the miracles of God.  We must not, like the unbelievers be reliant upon signs and wonders for proof that God is there.

Faith in God is what it requires to please God and grow.  We must therefore counsel our own hearts to listen to sermons, read the Word, go to Bible studies and spend time with the Lord in prayer, for this is the road to faith and relationship with God.  Above all I must agree to be honest with myself regarding my own misgivings, expectations and demands upon God before I can righteously align my heart with His quiet urgings.  If I am simply looking for Him to show up when I rub the lamp, repeat mantras like incantation or roll the dice in life looking for Him to step in our defense, then we have designed a graven image that is certainly not God.  So though you are tired, bored, ill equipped or not “feeling” it, God wants us to gather together to share fellowship, worship and hear the Word, so, just doing it applies.  If you want to hear the voice of God then take the time to get to know His voice, so it is recognizable above the din of the world.  And we all agree this world and its many screaming voices vie actively for our attention as Christians.  We must learn to self-control our focus and apply it to listening, looking, searching and praying for God’s verbal and active participation in our lives.  He is inviting us, will we accept and show up for the event?  I pray that we have hungry hearts for God’s Word and a lasting relationship found only through the door of Jesus Christ.  Amen

Cry out to God

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How many times did David fall to his knees in desperation, fully acknowledging and proclaiming to Almighty God that without Divine intervention he would certainly have perished?  With absolute clarity David knew there was nothing that could be done apart from God.  This factor was repeatedly emphasized in David’s worship music, poetry and prayers to God seen throughout the early Old Testament.  It is instructive to consider that the only lasting troubles with which David contended were always preceded by his lack of inquiry of God’s Will.  When David acted on his “own” understanding, he always ran into trouble from which he arose crying out to God for assistance.  Considering these factors it is safe to assume that asking and following God’s direction is always the best course of action, especially for those of us eager to avoid temptation, sin and disaster.

My admiration for David lay in his steadfast faith in the promises of God.  Sure there are those who will always point out his human failings, and this is rightful, as God would have us learn from our Brother’s grave mistakes in departure from God’s Will.  However, we should fairly look upon David’s knowledge, belief and dependance on Almighty God for every good thing that came to him, his family and the Nation of Israel.  David also understood his own shame, knowing that God would forgive him in his humility and repentance, that the sins of a Father may last for generations.  I so much look forward to speaking with David and loving him for the stance that he took in defense of the faith.  I may not avoid my own fall from Grace, but with reflection and remembrance of David’s misgivings, I have a greater opportunity to avoid sin and shame.  Thanks be to God for the knowledge He has provided through review of the lives of prophets, kings, saints and unbelievers.

Those of us in disaster must follow David’s example and cry out to God for mercy, intervention and succor.  There is no salvation but God through Jesus Christ.  Often I weep seeing Christians who have yet to give up on their steadfast independence and self reliance.  I feel that God must be waiting on so many of us to surrender.  It is a travesty to see Christians who will not cry out to the Father to heal them from illness, save them from circumstances, provide strength through wisdom or feed their hungry bodies and spirit.  The Lord is waiting for us to give up and seek His guidance, love, mercy, provision and grace.  We must remember that we serve a patient God to whom a thousand years is but a day.  We do not have that same luxury.  My advice is learn from David’s devout dependance on God and his catastrophes when he neglected to seek God’s Will, both pointing toward the same wisdom in consulting, crying out to and obeying God’s direction.  I see your pain, suffering and frustration, I too once denied my resistance to God’s Will.  Please cry out to God for relief, He is faithful to complete the work that He started in each of us, work that can never be done without His intervention.

Father, this is Your life I am living.  Have Your way, guide me, teach me and deliver me to freedom through wisdom, grace and hope in Your Loving Kindness.  Forgive me for the times I set out on my own path, especially those where I avoided Your counsel.  Let me never stray from this blessed relationship.  Don’t allow me to make mistakes that will have lasting impact upon my children and their children’s children.  Let me be remembered as a man after Your Heart.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Self Measure

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Why is it imperative that each of us find an identity to fulfill our individual or corporate objectives?  What is the foundation upon which that identity is formed?  Does it take crisis to shake us from an individual or group identity that may have been ill developed or conceived?  These are my questions for You, My Lord, Almighty God, Father of Heaven and Earth.  Lord, I fear it is essential that we either find our identities in Your Word, Your Perspective, Your Will or we will eventually be ushered toward an individual/group identity that is contrary to Your Principles.  Father, why does it, so much matter what I believe about myself?

Since my self perception is this important to my adequacy and effectiveness, could perhaps, my chosen identity be a reflection of my heart and soul.  If my self identity is misaligned with Your Will must I suffer a particular level of chaos to be shaken from this affiliation, indoctrination or influence?  Is my identity, and the discovery of that identity essential to my created purpose?  If I align myself with an identity that is alternate or contrary to Your perspective, do I simply become a tool for Your unfolding plan for humanity?  Is it as simple and as complicated as submitting to Your identity over my own, is this the key to efficacy in good measure?  Father, is what I believe about myself a clue toward the importance of knowing You?  Show me the importance of image Lord.

If I think that I will never measure up to God’s Grace then I most assuredly am mistaken in my Christian understanding.  It is established that none of deserve redemption, for the Bible elaborates that the wages of sin is death and that the works of even a righteous man are as filthy rags to the Lord.  So, if I continue to look at myself and “judge” that I am unworthy, then I continue to view the world through my worldly/fleshly prism.  You have been forgiven, that means “you”.  There is no further condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  Often it is wonderful to repeat God’s Word, but do we take it a step further and begin to walk in the belief turning what we’ve heard into faith?  It is a wonderful thing to approach the Lord, in the quiet moments within our prayer closet, humbly and contritely acknowledging to God that we continuously fail, but that should free us from carrying that judgment back into our daily walk.

Taking that condemnation or superimposing over your life is assisting the enemy in his efforts to make you feel inadequate.  Can we all come to an agreement, that we will accept God’s opinion of us over our own?  I think that will allow each of us to remain consistent within our range of self-image, never to hard never to lenient, humbly deferring to God’s Holy Word regarding our own righteousness or guilt.  We must inevitably arrive a point where we look at this world, including our own reflection, through God’s framework.  We have been forgiven, we have been made whole, we have been redeemed to God, the war between us is over, when He looks upon each of us He sees His perfect son.  That is all the perspective that I need. I must find myself hidden in God through Christ, my image protected by God’s eyes set upon me for eternity.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/developing-a-positive-self-image-431948.html The late Pastor Adrian Rogers on healthy self image.

We all search for meaning

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Life, what is to be done with it?  There is a spectrum of possibilities on this issue, ranging from life’s insignificance to the opposite where each human was specifically crafted for larger purpose.  On one end chance, over billions of years via shear opportunity, a chemical reaction created a specific chain of events resulting in human life.  I shall not argue these differences for sake of staying clear of argument about the existence of God, for I believe that review of the significance of life accepts His existence as precedent for further discussion.

On the other end, life has a specific purpose to train us for our eternal participation in God’s created universe.  If it is chance to which you subscribe then each interaction of this life is simply orchestrated by luck, coincidence and chemical interaction, leaving its meaning solely up to how each individual reacts to those chance environments and occurrence.

Here is where the “survival of the fittest” mentality is born, for in this ideology the strong will eat the weak and those of low constitution shall never prevail when subjected to ravages of time and chance.  This has never panned out as weak humans remain even after the tens or hundreds of millions of chance and evolutionary impact.  Certainly there have been evil men, Hitler one of the most atrocious, who believed that evolution needed a bit of assistance to eradicate the weak.  This just demonstrates the desperation involved in this life ideology, for if life were simply about the strong surviving, then we would never have thought Hitler evil in the first place, for he would have just been fulfilling the evolutionist’s mandate.  If I truly believed that evolution is the guiding power and authority governing man’s finite existence, then it would need no assistance from me.  Rather I would be struggling against its ominous impacts, chance near death experiences and inevitability.

Praise be to God that this is not the True meaning of life.  Thanks to Almighty God that this mediocre experience, called life may be transformed into abundant blessing through organized relationship with our creator in realization of His designed purpose for mankind.  Jesus Christ put it succinctly in John 10:9-10 when He said, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Living this life as if it is all that man can ever have breeds the contempt inherent to evolutionary ideology.  Praise God that this is not the end and that He may instructively utilize my weakness for His Glory and the good of mankind.  We are all precious, each of us.  Some of the noblest gestures and campaigns in mankind’s history were when the strong stepped in to defend, help or help to strengthen the weakest of our brethren.  Evolutionism preaches a desperation inherent to the “thief” Christ mentioned in the previous passage.  For satan would have us invest all of our eternal opportunity in the finite moments of this existence, incorrectly believing that your lot in this life is all that we may achieve.  He would have us give in to the desperation of our circumstances instead of concentrating on God’s promises of abundant life “in this lifetime”.  Yes Christ promised that His coming made it so that we “may have life and have it abundantly”.  That abundance only comes with a belief in something beyond “ourselves”.  It only comes with faith in God’s capacity to transform our circumstances or transform us within our circumstances so that abundant living is possible.  Those confining themselves to the finite, fickle and marginally powerless religion of evolutionism have determined that they will leave their access to abundance entirely up to chance.  They have had the possibility of abundance stolen by the thief, we also know as the roaming lion, who has effectively deceived them into giving up their birthright into the citizenship of heaven.

Look, I do not know what stimuli prompted those who subscribe to the religion of evolutionism to seek that limited path.  I just know that I cannot adhere to such desperation when the choice of abundant life beckons me follow.  Why narrow your vision focusing on the limitations of this lifetime when a full scan of the universe demonstrates the Glory of possibility and purpose?  I know that God made me for a specific purpose to His Glory.  I believe that the living of this life is its own purpose, that I can never be separated from that purpose and that eternity awaits my completion of this segment of infinity.  This is not all that I have and that makes me a powerful man even in the face of my obvious worldly weakness.  I am acquainted with eternity, His name is Jesus Christ the King of God’s creation.  My kinship to Him transcends any impacts that this life has in store, for I shall be with God, forever and forever, servant to a Righteous King who deserves my everything and promises me abundant, Life.

Reflect and respect

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What pain led us to the cross where we found redemption and understood love?  The reflection of the law, shone dark swaths of sin over our corrupt flesh causing us to cry out to the Almighty for release.  That ugliness of my original sin is forgotten by God, but I must remember the pain, despair and trauma that drove me to humble myself before God and my savior, Jesus Christ the King.  Why?  Because for all intents and purposes that memory is preparedness against complicity.  I must remain vigilant and work out my salvation with the same fear and trembling that first acquainted me to wisdom and reason.  I must guard close my fear and respect of Almighty God or else risk stepping from the skinny path, judging others or forgetting to “armor up” against the powers and principalities of the air.

What proof have we that God’s grace will continue as adequate fortification against His overwhelming wrath?  Is there some self -help initiative which effectively elaborates the necessary steps to maintaining sustainable global calm?  We hope in our dependence and faith upon the laws of this world that there is such a sustainable, irresistible hope, but alas this thinking lacks supportable fact, like communism and the goodness of mankind it is simply imagination.  The only real, verifiable, dependable truth is Bible Prophecy, which paints a picture of war, death, pestilence, false gods/prophets and the utter devastation of God’s Wrath upon the Earth and hearts of wickedness.  There will be no golden age of human evolution where those who believe in survival of the fittest suddenly have pity, empathy, understanding and good will toward those of lesser stature, wealth, status or body.  This is folly and is false word seeded to the ill will of the principalities to lead astray the wise, believing that beyond reason and the truth of God’s Word there is some alternate salvation for humanity.  Pay these ideas no heed, denounce them and flee from those who would have us place faith in lies.

Jesus is coming back soon, first for His Church and then for judgment.  You see the signs, that is if you have studied the Bible enough to understand what those signs will be.  What now will you do that the end times and the great day of the Lord approaches?  Will you hold fast to the things of this Earth, pleasures and frailties that will find you counted among the lost or will you sell all you have for the pearl of infinite price?  Will you start planning for your real citizenship by filling your lamp with oil and awaiting the masters arrival, whether day or middle of night?  We as Christians have ample warning, I would hate to have myself among the goats when the sheep have been gathered by the Good Shepherd.  That is my greatest fear, not of men and their persecution, but of God who may commend my soul to hell for eternity.  I think this is reasonable, don’t you?  Step away from this world and all the shiny things it offers your senses.  Follow the skinny path to salvation and sanctification so that your rewards in heaven will be wondrous.  There is no hope, salvation or peaceful redemption for mankind other than through Jesus Christ the King.  Find peace in Him or suffer the travesty of this world which begs for his judgment and wrath.