We hear lots of talk especially right now about living in the end times. Most people are pretty nervous, anxiety levels are hightened, worry is elevated but despite all that there is also revival happening even if it is primarily behind the scenes. What I find interesting is that to so many people the idea that we’re living in the end times is a new concept, when in reality every generation that has ever lived was living in the end times. The Bible didn’t just qualify to one generation it qualified for all. Jesus death covered the sins of all generations to ever live not just the ones in the Bible days. Every day that passes is one day closer to the end. So you see ever since humans were created we have been living in the end times. Every event that has ever taken place and that ever will was and is to get us closer to the return of our true King. This isn’t a scary phenomenon, it is written and it will pass. Don’t live in fear. We are in the end times, we always have been, the only difference between us and other generations is how we decide to live in it.
A thought came to me today as I stumbled upon some inspirational posts. Why are we often so eager to escape our troubling circumstances. We get trapped in the fire and get so focused on getting out that perhaps we miss the most important question of all, what refining needs to be completed in the fire? Just as a welder uses the fire to shape and refine metal, so God uses our circumstances, "fires" to shape and refine us. If he simply swooped in and saved the day, we would lack the knowledge he hopes us to gain, we wouldn't grow in character or wisdom. In the fire we think he abandom us, left us to our own devices, but in reality he is more present in the fire even then in the calm. It's when we feel abandoned that he's calling to us the loudest, beckoning us to just open our ears to listen to his voice. Take the fires in stride, don't immediately reach for the extinguisher. Allow the flames to surround you with the confident knowledge that the one whom the...
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