It's Just Too Much!

Sometimes we hear and see so much going on in the world around us and we want to throw our hands up in the air and declare "It's just too much!" It's too much suffering. It's too much ugliness. It's too much hate. It's too much meanness. It's too much animosity. It's too much apathy. It's too much propaganda. It's too much lying. It's too much to filter. It's too much to comprehend. It's just too much!
What do we have a tendency to do when everything seems too overwhelming and too much? Usually we put our heads either in the sand or under the covers. Maybe not physically but definitely figuratively. If we just don't think about it it doesn't affect us (if something is happening to someone else). If I can just hide for a few minutes maybe it will all go away.
But children in Christian families in Iraq and Syria are still being beheaded whether I think about it or not. Women are still being raped and murdered whether I acknowledge it or not. Men, godly men trying to provide for their families the best they can are still being murdered, hung.
Do we think it's not our fight?
Do we think it's so far from the USofA that it can't affect us; it won't infiltrate us.
I believe it's time to think again.

ISIS. Islam. Muslim. Terrorists.
But they aren't just terrorists from another place. They aren't just something that has risen up suddenly. They aren't a group of wanna-bes. They are the real deal. They are a people. They aren't just a cause. They are a way of life. And they want the world. And they want the USofA, us...
And where are we, the good ol' USofA in Revelation? In Daniel?
If you think it can't happen here...
It's time to think again.

Yes, it's scary to think about. It's scary to think that all of this has been put in place from the foundation of the world. It's scary to think that all we know and love can be gone in the blink of an eye.  It's scary to think if this doesn't come to a head right now, in the present, then what in the world will our children and grandchildren be left to face.

Personally my cry is for Daddy to send Jesus to come get His Bride.  That's me.  That's you if you are a Christ-follower.

The days are urgent. Now is the time for salvation.
"And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain - for He says, 'At the acceptable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I helped you'. Behold now is the acceptable time, behold now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

Do you know Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? Do I know Christ as my personal Lord & Savior?

We need to have the answer right. We need to have Jesus in His rightful place in our lives. We need more than fire insurance. He is more than fire insurance.

Do you have a relationship with Jesus that is going to stand the test of time? Are you committed to Him. to persevere to the end? Are you abiding in Him or at least is the desire of your heart to abide in Him and you are pursuing Christ the best you can now with what you know and willing to grow?

Salvation...It's like a coin. Let's take a penny as our visual. A penny is one cent, no matter how you look at it. Yet there are two different and distinct sides to the penny. We call them heads and tails. One side is the face of Abraham Lincoln and the other side is the Lincoln Memorial or more recently the Union Shield.  If we see either side all by itself we instictively know what is on the other side. It takes both sides of the coin to make a penny.
Same with salvation. For years people have made the 'salvation coin' one sided. Just pray this prayer and voila'! your saved. And tack on to that 'once saved always saved' (which let me clarify I do believe) and you have a fire insurance policy which lets one basically live any how they want to live. Some actually go on to love the Lord and live for Him but others don't by using the once saved always saved policy.
The salvation coin is one coin with two sides that go together to make a whole.
                                                             Belief AND Repentance.
They go together. They are one. You can't have one without the other. Just like you can't have the Father without the Son and Holy Spirit. They are melded as one. So is belief and repentance.
The demons believe and tremble. Good grief, the demons KNOW Jesus is Jesus the Son of God. They fear Him! But there is no repentance in them. They have the knowledge of Jesus but not the personal relationship with Jesus as Lord and Savior. They don't pledge their allegiance to Him.

Do you have a relationship with Jesus? Have you pledged your allegiance to Him and Him alone? Are you living for Jesus, in for the long haul and not just pending all your hope on 'fire insurance'?

I think there is an urgency.

Until He comes...