Good Thursday morning! Congrats to the Catholic Church on their newly elected Pope. I hear many words and sound bites about this new leader, but what about the title Jesus told us to take if we want to lead: servant? Of course looking for a reformer to lead your group speaks of a need for reformation. The same thing must come before salvation. Something in our heart or in our life leads us to see the need for salvation, and we realize then the need for a savior.
It should not surprise anyone that the course of a life must bottom out before the unbeliever will look up for the strength to save. The blessing is that whatever it takes to reach the unknowing or unbelieving mind, God will take to recover His own. A drunk waking up in a gutter with blood on his face from an unknown injury knows that his sinful behavior must stop, and he looks to God. A man lays in a hospital bed knowing that life up to that point has been lived for him alone, and he looks up to God for the strength to live for Him alone. (Nah, that never happens! ) We have our stories of God reaching out to touch just the right place in our miserable, unbelieving lives. We also have prophecy.
The dreadful seals, trumpets, and vials in the Revelation are God's final attempt to reach those who belong to Him. To those who refuse to believe this is nothing but a mean and awful punishment, but then isn't much of life that already? It seems to me a better thing to suffer for the cause of Christ than to suffer in this life only to prepare for an eternity of suffering.
To life in Christ, and the promise of more to come!Bucky
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