"Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth..."
(Lk. 21:26)
Recently I read the following on one of the news outlets, "We’re in an age of ‘apocalypse anxiety’ and will never stop worrying about doomsday." I agree, if you qualify the "We're." He made an all inclusive statement, which is true of most, but not all. Those who walk close to God and are familiar with the Scripture "do not worry their pretty little head one iota," as my dear mother would have said.
I like the way in which the old camp meeting preacher put it, "The worst thing that can happen to a child of God is for them to drop an A-bomb and blow us into the arms of Jesus." Or as C.S. Lewis put it, "If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.”
Jesus admonition to His elect was, is, and alway will be, "Let not your heart be troubled." We who are of God's seed can bear up to any of those things that may lie ahead for the simple reason we know something much better and glorious follows. To mention just a few, we're told: it is a time of peace on earth; the calf and young lion shall lie down together; Satan and evil will be quenched; no more wars; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; righteousness shall be the universal rule; and best of all, Christ shall be enthroned King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
O, children of God, no matter how dire the situation may get, remember what awaits us. Christ left us a principle to follow,"For the joy set before Him endured the cross." Look past and look to!
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