The End

Is the end near? Is it time? The year 2012 is coming up...The end of the Mayan calendar...what about Nostradamus...

I am always amazed our ability to be worked up into a frenzy. I'm not talking about fervor or being zealous even...I'm talking about a frenzy. A frenzy means 'extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement'...The church is just as good at creating hype and a frenzy over things as the world around us...

I'll never forget Y2k. I remember going to sleep that night wondering if something was going to happen. I was up until midnight and it didn't seem like anything happened...and yet, at three o'clock in he morning I woke up in a panic. I could have sworn the sky outside my window was red and their were weird sounds all around me...THE END HAD COME! Amazing what imagination will do.

I love Jesus. He is everything to me. I know, based on scripture, that Jesus is a returning king. He is coming for his people. I don't know when that will be. However, it seems that allot of other people think they do. I remember the book '88 reasons why the rapture will be in 1988'. Obviously it didn't happen so the book that came out the next year was called 'The Final Shout – Rapture Report 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993.' Hmmm covering some ground there!

Here's the deal. I know Jesus is coming back. I know the scripture tells me I won't know the day or the time. Can I know the season? I believe so...I know that there are things happening in our world that cry out for God. The sickness of our world is so apparent. Read in Matthew 24 and you will read things that we read about in our newspapers all the time. I guess what bothers me is the frenzy that we succumb to. Movies (2012), books, prophetic web-sites with time lines...whatever catches your fancy...and all of a sudden we are operating out of fear and panic.

I am much more concerned about my friend who doesn't know Jesus and who could get in a car wreck today then I am about the end of the world. My focus is on people knowing an incredible God who redeems us...not trying to rally the troops because the end is near...Could it be? Sure it could...But if I am growing...pursuing Christ and bringing people along with me...then it doesn't matter when it is. I am doing what I am supposed to be doing! It was what we were supposed to be doing a thousand years ago...It is what were supposed to be doing today...it is what we are supposed to be doing a thousand years from now (if God gives us another thousand years).

It's not confusing...It's not frenzy based or hype driven. It is born out of a transformed life and a desire to give back to the one who gave everything to us. I am passionate about the love I have for Christ...out of that, everything I am and everything I do flows. I don't know when my end will be...It doesn't matter...I don't know when Jesus is coming back...It doesn't matter. All that matters is that He is my Lord...and I will always be ready for Him...