The News has not been very encouraging the past week. We are hearing about wars and rumors of war, earthquakes, famines, floods, fires, political acrimony in Congress, political acrimony within the Republican Party, health care uncertainty, arrests of wheelchair bound people with pre-existing medical conditions, attacks on our churches and attacks within our churches and (horror of horrors) our professional football players at odds with the President.
Matthew 24 warns of many of these as the beginning of birth pains, but these conditions have always been part of our history since Jesus warned his disciples they would occur. No age has been immune from these conditions. There have always been naysayers, skeptics, cynics, squeaky wheels, activists, agitators, rabble rousers, foolish "virgins" without oil, and doom-and-gloomiest, and those who predict the end of the world as we know it. In 2017 we are still here and while the voices are different, the debate is still the same. We can worry ourselves to death or we can stand firm and face our inevitable death with faith, hope and trust in the promises of God; keep preaching the Gospel; stand firm in the faith; face the future with optimism and rest in The Lord. Don't fall prey to the false prophets.
Stand firm in The Lord, brothers and sisters, stand firm to the end.
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