Are We Doomed?

Ah, I like the sound of a sprinkler on Saturday mornings. The big pumpkin is going all Bronco orange. Football games begin for real very soon. And, those school places are getting populated once more, but it's still hot out. Must be the bottom end of August. Does any of this mean that we are doomed? Surely doesn't appear so from a casual glance at what is pretty much normal for this time of year in this environment. But, isn't that the time when we are to look for the coming of Jesus the most? Weeelll, since the seasons come and go as promised, and, depending upon what you are looking at or reading at any given time, the times they either look hopeless or normal about all the time. We will find it hard to concentrate on preparing for the Lord's coming in our puny little strength of will. Oh, sorry, your will is powerful and intense? How's that latest diet going?

I think God gave some us diets and the need for such simply to remind us that we are dependent upon Him alone. The times and seasons do not themselves tell us that we are any closer to the end than they were in the year 1859 or 1776 or 1082. Jesus did remind us that things at the doorstep of the very end would be just as they are now - normal with a chance of Apocalypse. Kind of the way they have been since Paul's time, and in Augustine's time, and Spurgeon's time, and... you get the picture. This of course means that we must keep up our guard all the more, and we need God's steadfast love and enduring strength to do that without falling down on the job. I'm too easily distracted to watch constantly, and likely you are as well. As always, whether the times they be normal or the times they be so horrible that the end must surely be tomorrow, we be needin' Jesus.

Have a great Saturday!
Bucky