The World Today

Good Friday morning! A comic strip this morning shows a man wanting to check the book of Revelation because Weird Al Yankovic hit number 1 on the charts. (see Nothing is Not Something by Greg Wallace on www.gocomics.com) Yeah, kind of seems like a thing to do these days. We may see signs or we may see things we only think are signs, and run to those books of prophecy to check. All of us I think would like to know for sure that this sign means that prophetic event has begun or is beginning or might even begin next week. However, most of the things we think we see fall into the category Jesus said to not worry about. These are but the beginning of the labor pains, but the end is not yet, He told them back in the day, and the same goes for us about 2,000 years later. Of course, on the other hand as we say, with fighting taking place all around and in Israel today, the times they are lookin' mighty like something is brewing.

The world today is what it is. That is not to dismiss the suffering, but to emphasize the Savior. Our answer for all that goes on remains the same as the One found by Paul on the road to Damascus. Heh, heh, if you call 'finding' meeting an overwhelmingly bright light that scares a few years of your life on the spot. Paul could have refused to believe even in that moment. We don't think of it that way, but the man who wrote so much of the Bible could have turned and dismissed the Lord right there and gone back to Jerusalem. Would the blindness have remained like scales on his eyes? Maybe, we'll never know and we don't need to know. Paul choose Jesus and life that day. Whatever comes in this world today, we have that same choice. When you and I believed in Jesus, our future was secured for all eternity. Have faith, the dark clouds of world events only mean that the return of our Lord is close.

God's love and peace to you,
Bucky