I was listening to my favorite sports talk show yesterday and the topic turned from Football to the shooter at the Amish school. What caught my attention was when one of the hosts asked the other, "Does it seem like things are getting worse?" To which the reply was, "Yes, it seems the world is getting worse, more whacked out". I thought about that for a moment, realizing that those two men, non-Christians without any knowledge of Bible prophecy, was actually right on target! No doubt many are asking themselves today, "Where is God?" and to that I'd have to answer, the same place He has always been! I don't doubt He looks over the portal of Heaven with a heaviness within His heart at the condition of mankind. We have Senators who solicit young kids for sex, drugged crazed lunitics who kill and murder for a few more dollars, sick minded people who walk into our schools and shoot innocent children. We have religious fanatics who think its ok to burn churches and kill without thinking, but God forbid if you say one negative word about Islam. We have misinformed mothers who willingly abort their babies, ministers who sleep around, and priests who abuse children. Where is God? He is where He always has been, yet I know it breaks His heart. I wonder if He has walked among us observing all this. In the Old Testament He showed up at Abrahams door one day, ate lunch, and said He had come down to observe Sodom for Himself, just to see if what He had heard was true. Now dont' get all religous on me, I know God is everywhere, but His manifest presence isn't everywhere, just His omnipresence, which is why He chose for His manifest presence to show up and have lunch with Abraham. He had done that many years earlier too when He decided to check out the tower of Babel. What I understand is that those two times He showed up personally, well it didn't go well for those He was watching! So to answer your question, Where is God? You can be sure He is watching us, I just hope when He comes personally to check up on us, I'm sitting with Him! And that my friends is the reality of it!
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It is pretty obvious that a visit is long overdue and when He does come, I'm hoping it won't be too late for those who fail to see the signs that are so clearly present in the world today.
Hoping and praying! I had a strang dream last night, very vivid..not about soldiers and tanks, but about destruction...I was driving through a city, and a white swirling cloud was wrapped around the city, as I got closer to this, it cleared and what I saw froze me..massive destruction, it was as if a bomb had gone off. I seen destroyed cars and two large box trucks, there were people walking around, in a daze, stunned at what had happened. Most of my dreams are just dreams that I forget, but this one was so vivid and real, it woke me up! These are both exciting times that we live in, because they point to His return, and sad in that so many aren't ready for Him yet! We need to tell people He's coming again, and soon!
jesse,
really good thoughts. The story with the Amish school broke my heart, especially because I had been a few minutes away from where it was last year. We just had bible conference this week and it was brought up quite a bit that our world keeps getting worse and worse and I know that it breaks God's heart. One of the verses that I think of is in Genesis 6:6, when God sees the horrible depraved state of man and then it says that "The LORD was grieved."
My friends and I have gotten into many conversations of late discussing how we are petrified to ever bring kids into such a world.
But...
We have such a great promise :-) We know the outcome of this war and that it is secure. Praise God for that! In a hymn we sang today the line was: "for lo his doom is sure." I loved singing that line with all that was in me, knowing deep down in my being that God is going to defeat satan someday, and that God is still in control even admist the evil.
I miss you guys and I am looking forward to seeing you guys next weekend. I'm gonna go look at some of your other posts now :-)
Keep seeking Him in everything,
<3, amanda
haha... so i feel stupid right now. I got your link off of Pastor Darin's website thinking you were my friend Jesse from my home church, well through your other blog entries I quickly discovered you were not the Jesse that I thought... oh boy i feel dumb and it wouldn't let me delete my comment, but that's okay cuz everything applies except for the last comment. well anyways... it was nice "meeting you" sorry about that!
Amanda, as a brother in Christ, your commnents were encouraging, i've just recently discovered your pastors blog...love it! God bless!
Thanks for the comment Jesse. I'm glad that someone who just stumbled upon my blog titled me as an "encourager" because that is really what I love to do and strive to do as much as I can. I checked out the website for your book and it looks really good! When I have money I will have to pick it up. That is so awesome that you wrote a book! It's one of my dreams to write a book someday, the problem is I am not sure what I would want to write about... but I suppose I have time! :-) Be blessed and thanks for your prayers!
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