Friday, February 8 2008

It Has Begun...

We are beginning a new year, one that many predict will be the most tumultuous, exciting and challenging year to date for most people. The stock market will make roller coaster rides at Disney seem tame and nations will rise up and be more threatening than ever. And God saw to it that we were born in this time. Do you think that was so we could find a cave and hide? Or is it possible that in the midst of the tumult, the trials and the tests, the Desire of the Nations (a term for the Messiah found in Haggai 2:7) who resides in us, may actually want to be found in us as one who brings hope and help in time of need?

But that conflicts with the theology most of us hold. We believe Christ's return is imminent and it may well be, but that doesn't mean we should rejoice as we see the darkness approaching, watching from the supposed safety of our fallout shelters as God brings judgment on the systems of this world. We use phony currency backed up by impossible promises made by unscrupulous men who profit from our collective misery.

But we were born for such a time as this! Let us arise and like the sons of Issachar discern not only the times in which we live, but apprehend the wisdom to know what to do! And you wonder if it's God's will to prosper and have tangible answers for a world that is beginning to be gripped by panic??? Now more than ever, the world needs to see the Desire of the Nations rise up in us and demonstrate wisdom in a time of collective ignorance and outright stupidity. The world is looking for answers and even more so as their pension funds disappear and stock portfolios diminish.

You don't know what to do yet?. Not fully? But what we at least should know what we should do. Let us step out in what we do know. Let us launch out in the direction of our dream, the one we got when we spent time in His presence and not the one we got from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." There are so much more to say on this topic but that will have to wait till next time. Until then, seek Him like your life depended on finding Him. It just might!