Time Being Short...

Sunday morning. Spellbound. Stuck to my chair, still in my pajamas, hair uncombed, rooted to the spot. I think my mouth was even open. I was dumbstruck. The guy on TV was speaking the words that had been running through my head all week. It was like he was reading my mind. With every confirming word he spoke the conviction to speak out in me grew. But how? It's uncomfortable, telling people they need get right with Jesus. I know they think I'm crazy, and I am. I am crazy in love with Jesus, and I'm not ashamed of that. But it's more difficult for me to speak into other people's lives, because I know they don't want to hear it. And for some, it's downright offensive. I never want to offend people, or make other people uncomfortable. That makes me uncomfortable. 

But things are happening. Wars all over the place. Famine, pestilence, Israel is back in it's native land just as the Bible predicted in 6 B.C., Right is wrong and wrong is right. White is black and Black is white. Good is evil, and evil is good. And the Euphrates is drying up. Now this last thing is what really got me thinking about these things this past week. All the other things, undeniable as they are, have been happening. They aren't new. But the Euphrates river...The Bible says in the book of Revelation that it would dry up. And then lo and behold, I'm scrolling through You Tube and I see a little blurb on that. I scroll past it, but then I see it again. I scroll past it again, and a couple of days later, here is something else about it. So I decide to see if it's real, or just click bait. I read about it. And it's true. They are attributing it to climate change, and I'm not saying it's not. I'm just saying it's something to think about.  If the Bible says it will happen, more than 2000 years ago, and it's now happening, whatever the reason, it bears some brain cell application. What's scary about that, to me at least, is that scientists predict it will be gone by 2040. I don't think there are fifteen more years to repent, however, and that is my point. In the timeline of Biblical events, the Euphrates drying up is well into the great tribulation coming onto the world, very shortly. Time is short.

These recent events I have been reading about have spurred me to rethink my comfortable position. 

So I'm going to make myself uncomfortable for your sake. 

I believe the return of Jesus is imminent. What this means is that if He returns today, there will be loved ones and friends that will be left to muddle along in the great tribulation that is coming on the world. Things are going to get super bad, and in a hurry. The minute Jesus calls his people home, it's going to start. Famine like you've never seen. Fighting and violence like you've never seen. No one will be safe. There will be no supplies. Nothing to eat. Nothing, literally nothing good, left in the world. All the good will be gone. Hell on Earth. I'm not fearmongering, just stating the reality of what will be. I don't want anybody in my family or any of my friends left to deal with that. 

And it's easy to avoid this. All it takes is a prayer and a surrender. Acknowledge that sin has been ruling  your life.  Repent of it.  Believe Jesus came to save you from your sin and sickness. Tell Him so. And believe it. And live like you believe it. Love God and your neighbor. That is all it takes. If you are sick of yourself, sick of your sin, sick of your own ways, tired of the endless struggle to keep your head above water, and you really want to change, this is what it takes. There is life there, at the table of Jesus. Good things. The Bible says every good thing is there. I want good things, and I want you to have good things, too, like peace, and joy, and freedom and light. The intangibles, I call them. The only things that matter in this life are the things you can't see, and those are things that count for the next life, too. Love always, Auntie Ju.