This is darkness.
Right now.
Right here.
You can see it. You
can feel it. You can almost cut it.
If you know God. If
you know Jesus. If you know the Holy
Spirit.
Many leaders of this world are as lost as they can be.
In the United States, so many leaders of the country are
just lost. And confused.
We are in the last of this period of human history. I can use all sorts of different words to
describe it – the end times, the last of the church age, the days just before
Jesus’ return, the time just before the horrible seven year tribulation and the
move into Jesus’ thousand year rule from Jerusalem – his kingdom literally
being on earth and not just inside each believer.
We really cannot always know whether the actions of some
leaders – government, political, even media and entertainment “celebrities”
that occupy the minds and focus of so many people – are intentionally evil or
just the result of being lost and confused and plain not knowing what to
do. But all believers can and should with
the guidance of the Holy Spirit discern when they are not of God.
And in the same way, we can and should discern and recognize
deception impacting our lives, whether from some national leader or policy or
some local person with whom we have contact, just someone in our lives, our
paths, maybe even a family member.
In these very days people in America are falling away from
the Lord rapidly. Deception is rampant.
And the United States of America (and so many of its people)?
·
Lost
·
Suffering greatly from its attitudes and
pressures on Israel
·
Suffering greatly from its acceptance and
increasing endorsement of behavior and lifestyles that God himself condemns
·
Suffering greatly from not knowing the Lord, not
knowing the Word, not knowing what is happening and is about to happen in God’s
plans and timetable
·
Suffering greatly from not knowing the absolute
truths of God available readily through the Bible. Everything is not relative. That is a lie of the devil.
·
Suffering greatly from not knowing God’s
commands and how he intends for people to live (not knowing God’s promises and
the inherent great blessings that come from following and living in those
promises)
You if you indeed are a true believer
in the Lord Jesus Christ are not of this world.
This current system is not your home.
Yet you do find yourself living in the midst of the quagmire, and you do
suffer daily from all you see and experience.
I know you do.
In this situation you must
maintain your connection with God and to the extent possible with other like
believers. Being in the presence of
other true Spirit filled believers in the Lord is a support and comfort and
joy.
You must maintain your joy. You must.
Others who may be close to turning to the Lord need to see your faith
and peace and inner strength and joy and perseverance.
Yes we live in the midst of this
all. Yet we know the truth. We know who wins in the end, as some like to
say. We know that in the Lord we have
already won.
Keep your eyes on Jesus. There can be no more important advice to
give. Stay focused. Do not be distracted from your faith and the
path God has called you to. Praise
God. You know the truth.
(October
2013)
Copyright ©
2013 by John Newlin
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