“Sometimes Christians are the biggest doomsayers of all. It’s not healthy. Frankly, it’s not even Christian. Fearfulness is an indictment against our God. Some of us go into a state of complete consternation when the person we voted for doesn’t get elected, or when we hear of wars or disasters. We think it’s the end of the world. It’s Armageddon. Sorry, but I don’t subscribe to the notion that the world is a hopeless mess and we just have to hang on till Jesus comes back. I refuse to stockpile guns and gold, build a tree house in Montana, and wait for the world to go up in smoke. Our tendency to overreact to bad news is, unfortunately, legendary. We can only cry “It’s the end of the world!” so many times before people lump us in with Chicken Little and the boy who cried wolf. It’s bizarre, but some people actually enjoy bad news, even people who claim to believe that God is in control. They are fearmongers. They deal in worst-case scenarios. They traffic terror and peddle panic. News flash—regardless of the state of the world or the poll results of your favorite politician, Jesus “is still in control. He wasn’t voted in and he can’t be voted out. He rules and reigns over the affairs of mankind. Because Jesus lives, I can live differently. I can act and react from a place of peace and an attitude of assurance. Jesus is in control of my past, my present, and my future. Despair over my past failures or fear over future problems cannot control my “present because Jesus rules me with peace.” Excerpt From: Smith, Judah. “Jesus Is.”
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:09:11 +0000
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