Living through turmoil and
confusion in these "last days"
is just as Jesus said,
but He also says to endure
In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2 Peter 3:3
I don't want to give voice any of the naysaying I find online and in everyday living. Instead, I'll say I'm faithful.
We need faith to be Jesus' body in these eschatological end times. To keep being His hands and feet, helping make a difference, let's stop in-fighting in the church.
If we're fighting in unrighteousness, there's no victory in Him.
Jesus: The Savior who didn't have a place to call home at night, because his mother apparently doubted Him at one point; the Savior who depended on whoever was willing and listening, who depended on others in flesh but who said, "I'll give you rest"; the Savior whose prescription was to labor less like Mah-ta (the English say Martha), and to rest more like the sister who stopped her hurrying in order to listen.
Being pressed and stressed today, one of the best things there is is being still, getting organized and collected, working in peace. From early childhood to elder years, that's a blessed prescription.
And if you wouldn't want anyone to disrupt your peace in Jesus, don't make it your everyday mission to be disruptive to anyone else's day to day.
We're living at a time when some organizations have written "to disrupt" as part of their mission or goals. But I'm here to tell you, devil, you have another thing coming.
As the apostle Paul said, "I bear the marks of Christ," so don't bother me, anymore.
Let's keep quiet sometimes, study, and rightly discern not only biblical history but, more importantly, God's words of Bible truth. Let's keep our bearings and always know victory is in Jesus.
While much of the world is allied in war, confusion, and lawlessness now; and while there are those Europe- and Russia-oriented elite who have become headstrong not in faith but in standing on war power and on prideful thoughts of ancestors who migrated back to the land of Israel after the second most recorded world war; while there is racial and gay pride gone to godless extremes in thinking no one can go to the hell that men like Herod the Great went to, not if the offences are only using the tongue for evil compared to Herod murdering a wife, two of his sons, and Hebrew children (something the Jewish historian Josephus was probably too entangled with Rome to ever write about); while there is so much against many of us each and every day, we cannot forget that we are Heaven's shepherds, lions, and lambs, and that we are supposed to be witnessing our faith convictions no matter our circumstances.
God help us never to fall from grace.
Lord, help us remember how you said he who endures to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:13)
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When I logged in early morning weeks after I made this post, I happened to see someone had messed up this post. ... So I'm asking the Lord for the hacking to just end. ... I have held out too much faith for too long -- and have poured my whole heart into leaning on how I learned to write, edit, and keep faith that the love of God is always right there helping us speak our heart. ... The struggle God has given us is for His good, and there has been sacrifice enough without ministry being ruined.
