My dog hates storms, rolling thunder, cracks of lightning. Theses phenomenons are the unknown to her. She lifts her head, perks her ears and trembles. Then she sits as close to me as possible.
While natural storms don’t frightening, political and economic ones put me in the frame of mind as my mini Schnauzer. I lift my head, perk my ears, tremble a bit inside. What’s going on? Where’s it coming from, where’s it going? How bad will it get? Who can stop it?
And like my dog, I must move as close to my Master as I can. I’m sure He reaches down to stroke my head like I do hers, reassuring her everything is going to be all right. I’m sure He speaks peace to my heart and mind like I do to hers. I’m sure He’s praying for me like I pray for her.
But unlike my dog, I know I will endure hard times. The Bible guarantees us of it. Our home church as been studying Revelation and End Times to prepare our hearts for both the good and the bad ahead.
Did you know there are over a hundred chapters in the Bible dealing with the End of the Age. That’s more than the entire New Testament.
We can’t ignore what God is doing in the earth. The days of “it’ll all pan out” are fading away. The mind set of “Well, I don’t know but I’m trusting God,” is foolishness. We can know, we should know, we must know. (No, not the day and hour, but the times and seasons!)
Understanding what is to come changes the way I live my life now. Beyond the signs of tribulation, beyond the horrors of an anti-Christ government, it’s amazing to understand how God will care for His people. He’ll pour out His Glory. Even more, how we live NOW ushers us into our millennial kingdom “reign.”
This life is an internship to the next. Let’s live well. Humbly with forgiveness in our hearts, esteeming others higher than ourselves. Our reward, our beauty, our fame will come. Better in the next life when Jesus reigns on the earth than now.
Pray. Seek wisdom. Run with endurance.