Before leaving for a trip, we get ready - check the car-petrol, water, tyres; we made arrangements for our pets and set the security alarm for our homes.
Before we sit for an exam, we get ready by studying.
Many things are happening around us and around the world.
Things that we never expected.
Things that terrified and horrified us.
Things that we never imagined before.
- Human turbulence! (family disintegration, inhumane killings, human trafficking)
- Skies turbulence! (chaotic weather, disappearing plane)
- Financial turbulence! (corruption, money laundering)
- Earth turbulence! (wars, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunami, heat waves, earthquakes)
Although the End Times is a time of unprecedented world trouble, it is also the advancement of God’s Kingdom. Paul gave a wonderful perspective of how we should spiritually prepare for that time, whenever it comes:
“But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you also are doing” (1 Thess 5:4-11, NASB).
JAS
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