OK, I admit it.
I watch Glenn Beck.
I'm not happy about the direction this country is taking.
But, Glenn Beck isn't who I put my faith in.
Neither do I put my faith in this country or the political system that I've grown up in.
I put my faith in our Sovereign God.
It's His plan.
I must trust Him.
He created you.
He create me.
Look around you.
He created it all.
He created it all and it exists for one purpose.
It's a pupose that He understands, because before any of it happens, He knows.
He hardens men's hearts, but He also softens them.
He has compassion upon whom He will have compassion.
Though He slay me yet willl I trust Him.
If our entire society explodes tomorrow and those who call Christ their Savior are ridiculed or even persecuted for their beliefs, do not relent.
We in Ameriaca have a really bad sense of history. We forget that those who have served Christ throughout the centuries have been persecuted for their faith.
We forget that one of the biggest questions that faced the early church was what to do with those who denied Christ and offered sacrifices to Ceasar as a god.
Our God is a compassionate God, but Jesus told us very clearly that if we deny Him before men He will deny us before God.
The men and women who sacrificed to Ceasar forgot this.
Perhaps they never had the saving faith that keeps the faithful from denying their Creator.
Perhaps they were young in their faith.
We will never know.
But we must not follow the example of those who relented, who gave up the faith in the face of death and valued life more than eternal life.
Rather, we must follow the example of those who didn't.
If we have saving faith.
If we are truly certain of God's existence and cling to His promises then we must follow those men who have not relented and who have proclaimed with certainty their faith in God's ability to grant eternal life to those whom He has chosen.
Will you trust this fleeting world?
Will you trust the promises of safety and security that the world offers?
Because if you trust it...
If you trust men and the world then when the world ends, when goverments fail, when the world comes against you, you will chose wrongly.
I cannot offer hope to you.
Only God can.
Seek His strength.
Pray that He will give you true faith, faith that will help you to pass gracefully from that moment when you are here, to that moment when you are elsewhere.
He will hold your hand and help you across that divide if you are one of His sheep. And if you are not one of His sheep then no amount of pleading can change His mind or His plan.
If you are His, He will provide your every need until that moment when He deems that your needs are taking priority over Him.
Hold on to Him.
Trust Him.
Love Him.
Know that if you are truly His that He loves you so much that He gave His Son as the payment for your sins in order that you might have eternal life.
Governments may fail.
Worlds will disappear.
But God, unchanging, unchangable, outside of everything that we know and understand, is there for you.
Never forget that.
Rest in that.
If you find yourself sitting in the ashes scrapping yourself with a potshard, do not doubt that He has provided your salvation.
Your're safe.
You're better than safe.
You are loved by your Creator.
Love Him back.
And may Your Lord provide you with that peace that surpasses all understanding and the certainty that no one who He has put into His Son's hand were ever lost, save the son of perdition whose fate it was to betray the Son of God.
God bless you in these perilous times. |
