Voice of the Introverts

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”

“Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” James 5:7-8

The trouble with religion is that there is nothing personal about it, anything or everything can be your icon, your god. That is why we, as professed Christians strive to tell everyone that they need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the risen savior who paid the penalty for your sins.

I recently got my first cataract surgery. In fact, just two days ago from me writing this. That first day everything was darkish, my eye would not even open very well yet. When I woke up the next morning though, there was so much light! It was like when you wear sunglasses and you take them off, that is what it was like! The world is so much brighter, that eye is understanding the light in the world much better than I can remember.  I would never have believed that I was wearing sunglasses on my eye! But when the physician removed that cataract – that blockage – from my eye, the light of the world has opened up!

My guess? It is a symptom of the end times, but common sense seems to have left the atmosphere altogether. I look around at all that is going on and just have to shake my head in amazement at the very educated people that are running the country (and the world) that seem to be devoid of any practical common sense. I can only presume that this is the part where the Bible says “thinking themselves to be wise they became fools” – Romans 1:22.

I read a description of George Orwell’s novel, 1984, on Google. It said at the end, that “it remains a work of science fiction”. I am not sure exactly what the author meant, but it sounds like they were not sure it would remain a work of science fiction. 

Looking at the book of Romans continuing from several weeks ago, Paul gets more specific about things that are against the will of God. The unsaved person sees nothing wrong in living this way (out of God’s will) since he does not see any future consequences to living this way. We, as Christians however, should take heed to these things. If you see any of these traits within yourself, you should begin to think a little deeper and look a little harder and question your walk with God.

We talk about prayer a lot.  We say I’ll pray for you.  We say a blessing over our food.  We have a nightly prayer routine with our children.  We often pray, but do we really pray.  I mean really really pray?