Friday, May 24, 2013

The End Times

I read a story yesterday about two Christian missionaries in China.  They had just celebrated the birth of their first child.  One morning they were dragged out of their house by Chinese authorities and beheaded on a hill above town while their child was tucked away in their house with a ten dollar bill in its blanket.

A few days ago, a British solider was slaughtered in broad daylight.  He was beheaded, and chopped up like meat while the two men shouted, "Allahu Akbar" which means God is Greater in Arabic. 

I heard a story last night about a teenager from somewhere out west who was nearly trafficked to Phoenix, Arizona.  By what could only be divine intervention she was saved before she actually got in a car with the two men who tried to traffic her. She came to find she had already been sold to a pimp. 

I recently learned more about mind control than I would've  like. It is used on children and in order to achieve it, that child is severely abused until that child has no choice but disassociate and become a slave.

Stories like this exist in bulk. I would be lying if I hadn't been feeling the weight of it all pressing down on me.  I would be lying if I wasn't discouraged.  These are just things that are happening around the world.  In my own life I am currently looking for a job and fighting hopelessness everyday.  I am daily fighting loneliness and lust.  I am striving for a life that is built on abiding in the one true God.

This is a message for everyone because the message is simply to never give up hope. Most of us have a personal hell that we fight everyday.  Satan is mean. He hates everyone. The world is also an awful place. Satan plays a big role in that.  But the message in scripture is to never give up hope. 

Jeremiah 29:11-For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18-  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Romans 8:24-25- For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 12:12-  Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 15:4- For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 15:13-  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.


I could go on. One interesting meaning of hope in the bible is to trust.  Whether the darkness of the world is overwhelming you, as it did me, or your own life sucks the hope out of you, it is important that we hope in the Lord, that we trust in Him. One of Satans tools is the steal our joy.  To discourage us.  So my message is one that I have heard before and you might of as well and it is:

Don't give up. Keep pressing in.  Keep asking and praying.  Don't. Give. Up. Hope. If your family has issues that overwhelm you, don't give up on them.  Don't give up on life, or decency in the world.Or people.  God has a plan.  He asks to keep praying, loving and hoping (trusting).  Take your peace.  These end times are not meant to conquer us.  They are a reason to offer praise and glory to the one true God. Praise His name and in His name, Amen.