Cold, with no Worries - January 5, 2010

Good Tuesday morning! We are expecting more snow tonight and tomorrow, but out here we are escaping the troublesome cold and snow they have just a bit further east. Omaha has too much snow and will probably get more today. Flooding could be a real problem this spring out yonder. Is it the end times? Are we doomed? We know already that the answers are, yes and no. We have been in the end times since Jesus ascended to Heaven some centuries ago, but we are not doomed because He will return one day.

Global warming is of course causing all the snow problems in Seoul, Beijing, and Omaha. You have only to read about 95% or so of the media to know that it's global warming that is doing all this. A minority of scientists and others call out to reconsider that we might not have enough data or that the data has even been misread or even lied about. A popular news program has the slogan, "we report; you decide." Only one problem, with all the reporting going this way and that on so many things, how do we decide?

I take comfort in the fact that all this uncertainty points to the statement Jesus made that no man will know the date of His return. We see signs, but Jesus told us that while watching for them we are not to worry about them. Many of the signs point to the pains leading up to the end, but are not the end in and of themselves. The mild summer, short fall, and cold winter, may leave us a bit confused on this global warming thing, but we can take comfort that God is still sovereign.

Do you need comfort to start the new year? I think we all do; it isn't too hard to look out and see a problem that someone is under or a threat that looms over all of us. On the other hand, I feel a great hope. Is this at odds with the need for comfort? Not when we can see that the problems and threats are of this world, and our hope is in Jesus! We are perfectly right in feeling a great hope; Christ has many wonderful promises that we have not seen fulfilled yet. We believe in Jesus, and we know that great things are coming our way! Hallelujah for the day!

Bucky