Thursday evening was "Signs and Mimes" night at COF. Kathy Madsen and a few friends come and teach us how to use sign language to sing songs. It is a pretty cool thing to watch 325 people sign a song together. You almost don't even need the music to feel and hear the praise that is going on around you. It is a shame the world doesn't look at the signs around to see where we are in history. Matthew 24:7 says, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places." All of this will happen not to far from when Jesus returns.
Instead we are fascinated with a Mayan prophecy that states that 2012 will be the end of the earth. We also look to Nostradamus to find out what has and will happen. The folks that believe in these type of predictors seem to forget that the Mayan culture died out and hasn't returned. In addition, Nostradamus has a small handful of predictions that might have come true, but he has many more wrong predictions than right.
The Bible on the other hand, has never been proven wrong, and His people have returned to Jerusalem after 2000 years. There have been scoffers, but the Bible actually says that there will be. It also says that "Nation will rise against nation..." The actual word used when this was written meant, "culture against culture." Just looking at the United States in the last 50-plus years I would say that we are fulfilling that prophecy as I write this. If I'm not mistaken there have been and are continuing famines, and earthqakes have increased in the last hundred years more than global warming ever has increased. Yet does the weather channel talk about this? No, in discussing the recent tragedy in Haiti no one mentions this. The one Christian who took the news headlines and could have presented the true word of God instead spread the false version; the one most everyone hears when they think of today's Christian, judgemental. He forgot that God judges, not us, that is not our job. So he could not really know why Haiti is dealing with this horrific earthquake. God's ways are not our ways and whether or not we understand, or like it, it doesn't matter, He's God. When Christians remember that, and shut their pie-holes at the right time, we are doing what a follower of Jesus would.
Our job is to love each other, friend and foe alike. That is the sign of a true follower of Christ. So when you see someone helping another in Christ's name, or trying their best to listen, and not speak or judge, know that that is a sign of somone who loves God and is called to His purpose. Those signs are never wrong, and they truly give God's love to all who see, and experience them. That is a pretty cool thing.
Instead we are fascinated with a Mayan prophecy that states that 2012 will be the end of the earth. We also look to Nostradamus to find out what has and will happen. The folks that believe in these type of predictors seem to forget that the Mayan culture died out and hasn't returned. In addition, Nostradamus has a small handful of predictions that might have come true, but he has many more wrong predictions than right.
The Bible on the other hand, has never been proven wrong, and His people have returned to Jerusalem after 2000 years. There have been scoffers, but the Bible actually says that there will be. It also says that "Nation will rise against nation..." The actual word used when this was written meant, "culture against culture." Just looking at the United States in the last 50-plus years I would say that we are fulfilling that prophecy as I write this. If I'm not mistaken there have been and are continuing famines, and earthqakes have increased in the last hundred years more than global warming ever has increased. Yet does the weather channel talk about this? No, in discussing the recent tragedy in Haiti no one mentions this. The one Christian who took the news headlines and could have presented the true word of God instead spread the false version; the one most everyone hears when they think of today's Christian, judgemental. He forgot that God judges, not us, that is not our job. So he could not really know why Haiti is dealing with this horrific earthquake. God's ways are not our ways and whether or not we understand, or like it, it doesn't matter, He's God. When Christians remember that, and shut their pie-holes at the right time, we are doing what a follower of Jesus would.
Our job is to love each other, friend and foe alike. That is the sign of a true follower of Christ. So when you see someone helping another in Christ's name, or trying their best to listen, and not speak or judge, know that that is a sign of somone who loves God and is called to His purpose. Those signs are never wrong, and they truly give God's love to all who see, and experience them. That is a pretty cool thing.
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