No Fear, Only Trust

What time I am afraid,  I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

Psalm 56:3-4

Friends, did you know that we are living in crazy times? No doubt you do. I think we are living in the craziest of times that I have ever known. Not that there haven't been them before. What with past wars and other kinds of viruses and sickness and civil unrest. But somehow, this seems different to me. Is it really the beginning of the end for the time when Jesus comes back to take the church back home to live with him? Or it just another part of having to live here and endure until he does, or until we ourselves pass and go into eternity. Whether that be to heaven or hell? Will things of this world have to get even worse then they are now, before he comes back? 

Some are saying we are in the last days. But then we have heard that from the beginning of time. That Jesus is coming back at anytime now. And I wonder if things will have to get worse before he actually does. Even though it sure feels like the times are bad enough for that to happen. 

However, even when we think it could be at any moment, Isaiah 55;8-9 tells us that his thoughts and ways are not our ways. His are higher. So really. Could it be that he is going to come back real soon?

The fact is that no one really knows. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will never pass away. No one knows about the day or the hour, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son but only the Father. Mathew 24:35-36.

That scripture goes on to say in verses 37-39, that it will be like the day of the flood that took out many people during Noah's time, when Jesus will come back. They were eating, and drinking, and marrying, and yet the people did not even realize what was about to happen. Because they would not listen to Noah as he built the ark. They just figured he was an old fuddy duddy. Their lives were on the line and they weren't paying attention. 

Should we then, understanding that Jesus is  coming back, ignore the signs in these days we live in as if things will have to get worse before he does? Not pay attention to them?

Absolutely  not!. Because we do not know the day or the hour. He might come back next week, next year or a hundred years from now. Or he might come back before I am done with this post. Because, we don't know. 

We don't want to miss it, Friends. His coming. Like those of Noah's days that perished because they ignored the message that he was preaching to them. And so as verse 42 in that same chapter says: Watch therefore; for you do not know what hour your Lord will come.  And verse 44: Therefore be ready. For in such an hour that you think not, the Son of man will come. 

We don't want to miss his coming, Friends. Are you ready? Are you watching? Are you listening? Or are you instead just all caught up in what is going on in the world and not paying attention? 

It is good to know what is going on around us. But we also should not dwell completely on that but take comfort in the fact that in what time we are afraid, we can put our trust in God and not worry about what man can do to us. Because that is his promise to us in times like this. And you know what?

We meed that promise. No matter what is going on in the world.

Thanks for coming, Friends. God bless you in this his day!