“Is The World Coming To An End?!”
Is the world coming to an end?! The experts say that we are expeirencing global warming. They say we could be struck by an asteroid. They say that sea levels are rising. Tsunami strikes are more likely. Famine is spreading! Epidemic deseases could and will strike! The weather is more and more tumultuous and harder than ever to predict! Hurricanes are more frequent and more violent! Tornadoes and floods more common place. Where will it all end? …..Who knows! …..Who cares!
Centuries and decades and years and months go by and everybody keeps saying the end is coming. Nowadays they say it is coming soon! Well,,,, they’re all right and have all been right! Every day the world gets closer to the end. Every day since the beginning of time the world has been getting closer to the end! Just like everyday we get one day closer to death. When will that be? Our death? The death of our planet? The end of our “world”? Nobody knows! Just like the Bible says….not even Jesus….only God knows!
So why do we fret about it? We might get killed by a train tomorrow. Die on the interstate. A plane crash! Heart attack! Cancer! Murder! Who knows?! A million things are more likely to kill us if you calculate the odds. The Earth has been around for how many years? Centuries? Millenium? The odds are atronomical that we will see the end of the world in our time! But…… but anything can happen! So, naturally we need to be prepared. So, why do we waste our time worrying when we could be living life to the fullest? Worshippng God, doing His will and not our own, following His example of love and living, basically acting like a “real” Christian is supposed to act! Reaping what we sow!! Why is it so hard?
The world is so much more complicated! That’s why!
Look around you. The cities are bigger and more congested. The “country” is shrinking everyday. We have video games, television, theaters, cd’s, dvd’s, cars, sports, computers, ipods, the internet… “high speed” internet, remote controls, drive thru windows, 99 flavors, alcohol, porn, ciagrettes, pills, dope, pot, sex, music of every kind, travel to anywhere in the world, foods from all parts of the world and on and on! There are so many distractions, addictions, hobbies, commitments, indulgences and luxeries that we have almost no room left for God and are so distracted by the “world” that we can’t see Him even though He is all around us! Wow! What a ploy! Attacked from every direction possible through every sense we have! Amazing battle plan if you think about it!
So what do we do?! How do we survive?! What a struggle this Christian life is!!
But, if you look at the truly successful people in this world you can see the truth. Very few, a minute number, a tiny, microscopic fraction of all the people who have ever lived and died were any kind of a success without having to work and struggle and scratch and claw their way to the top! All the way from the best olympic athelete to the highest paid corporate executive, from the vascular surgeon to the motorcross champion, rock star to professional baseball player and any other person you might consider successful Their stories tell of sacrifice and hard work! Dedication and fortitude! Fighting against all odds and never, never giving in to defeat until finally the day comes when they win that first Gold Medal, get that promotion to the top, earn their medical degree, their first championship or whatever milestone that sets them in the elite group of the truly successful! They have so much for a Christian to glean. Not about money, status or material gain. Not in the area of fame or acknowledgement, but more importantly they have the story of their vision, their goals, their struggles and their never ending determination to succeed!!! Wow!
So, do we really want to be a success as a Christian? Do we really want to find out if all those promises in the Bible are true? Do we have the deternination and the fortitude to make it through the storms, struggles and sacrifices that have to be made to find out?! Because the only true way to find out is to make it to the top!! Then when we get to the top and only then will we finally know if the juice was worth the squeeze!! I want a gallon… no a fifty-five gallon drum full of the best tasting, sweetest juice there is!!!
Will I make it? Only God knows…. and only He can truly offer me the kind of success I want and desrie in the depths of my being! Only His Son can offer me the true fortune that I need and am created to have one day! I was not put here to toil and struggle for a bigger house, deeper pockets, a more impressive protfolio! I was not created for material gain but to fight a successful campaign directed at winning the most glorious and treasure filled reward ever given to anyone! A reward that greatly exceeds the heights of glory any sucessful person has ever had here on earth!!!!! Solomon was never as rich here on earth as anyone of can be in heaven!
Wow, ….. I think I need to thank God for not giving up on me when I gave up on myself! I praise Him for His strength when I had none left in me to fight on! I am humbled by the gift His Son gave me when I have done nothing and can do nothing to earn or deserve it!!!! I am grateful and blessed by the Comforter whom He sends to me when I can find no relief in anything of this world!!! Praise God! I pray that He will continue to lead me by His bright shining light when I am on the path He has laid out before me and that He will lead me by the hand when I have stumbled off into the darkness that lays at each side of that path! Praise His name! Praise His Son Jesus Christ and Praise the Holy Spirit! I will not give up the fight! I will not lay down and die! I will not go silently into the night! I will struglle and claw and scrape my way to the top! I WILL BE A SUCCESS! Praise God!
Wanna come along?! Let’s join forces by praying for the success of every Christian and the salvation of all those who are not yet Christians!!! Man!!!!…. I’ve gone and got myself excited! Let’s get started…now!
