Let anger replace your fear, and you'll feel a whole lot better. Don't worry, dear.
Second, let not the call to fear whispered by the evil one drag you away form your joy in salvation, for therein the ecil one is winning, influencing others, casting grave doubt about your salvation into the minds of those not yet saved. They will reason, 'If she fears, what good is her god?' Allowing yourself to dwell on danger that you have absolutley no control over is to allow the evil one and his servants, the terrorists, to accomplish the only thing they can achieve since you've been born into His family ... they seek to remove the joy of your salvation, seek to push you into doubt of His promises.
Third, even Jesus has not been given to know the hour of His return for US. Should we argue with God's timing, whining that we are not ready for His plan, not ready for the savior's return? Never let it be so in your life. On the contrary, live each day in the clear undestanding that the universe runs along God's ultimate timing. What He has planned is soamazing and so glorious, we can't comprehend it in our present state. Since you have children, think for a moment about the absurd notion of retianing those children in the womb and never allow them to be born. The life we now live is the womb of our future release.
Finally, read your scriptures. Read the long and wondrous letter written by Doctor Luke to Theophilus, a Greek, recorded as the Book of Luke, and the Book of The Acts of the Apostles. Then read Thessalonians ... there's a secret snatching away written about in that book that is offered for US to comfort one another, reciting it. God does not lie and He always makes good His promises. If we hold to strongly onto this temporal world, we begin to diminish the great gift of the world to come, the life everlasting, the birthing from this world into a higher dimensional reality we cannot yet sense in our limited state.
LK 20:34 Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36 and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection. 37 But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' 38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive</font color=red>."
We have Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for U. S. Senators and John Baldacci for U. S. Rep.
This is small potatoes compared to that burden!
"There are no 'IFs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect; His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it."
Know that you're not alone. I am really disgusted with some of the posters here who are blaming "the church" for your fear. Man (and man's "religion") can cause fear and chaos. But our God is the God of order and calm. The only true peace in this whole mess comes from the Lord. I know it's hard to focus on Him when all this is going on, especially when you have kids to worry about. I have had a hard time understanding how He could allow this to happen, etc...
But our thoughts are not His thoughts, and our ways are not His ways. Someday, we will understand everything, but not now.
My suggestion to you would be to turn off your TV, unplug the phone, take a long, hot bath, put the kids in their jammies, order a pizza, and read a ton of fun stories together. The enemy wants you to be afraid. I believe this war is not only physical, it is spiritual.
Faith takes courage; always has, always will.
That's what makes the real thing extrememly difficult to acquire; as courage in & of itself is a virtue.
Sounds like you need to set-aside some time to do a bit of serious soul searching.
There's no better time for that, than right now.
I, too, am afraid. I awake at nights in a cold sweat with nightmares about double-knit polyester leisure suits coming back into fashion. I share your pain. Some fears just won't go away...you just have to learn to ignore their lurking presence.
Good Luck.
Those who are preaching the doom and destruction sermon are doing absolutely NOTHING to further the love of Christ. Granted this attack may have fallen under the title 'God's Will', but the 'preachers' are presenting a really strong case that God cares not a whit about His Christians or their states of mind. They offer the 'judgement' but no hope. There's very little edification of The Body. Instead one is to believe that The Body is some scrawny form with only certain parts allowed. At those times, it's good to immerse yourself in The Word. God Himself will speak to you. And His Holy Spirit will speak to your heart. And no matter HOW well-intentioned the 'preachers' are, it STILL comes down to a personal relationship with Jesus, you and Him. No one else. He will speak to you in words meant only for YOU. He will use a language that is understandable for you and between you 2. He IS aware of the kids you have charge over, and KNOWS your heart's fears. He can soothe those fears also.
I know it's hard but if you have time to be alone without the kids around, use it as your 'prayer closet' time. 'Fall apart' in 'front of' the Lord. You ain't gonna be doing or saying anything He's NOT already aware of with you! You'd be amazed at how quickly and lovingly He'll pick you up, His kid, and put ya back together!
To suggest that the end is planned and "seen" contradicts the FACT the humans have a FREE WILL.
Don't bother responding for any debate. As Bush said. "These are not open to discussion or negotiation!"
"As terrible as this sounds, I'm afraid, I mean really afraid, it's effecting my ability to concentrate and work. Forgive me for posting this."
I'll try and forgive you...
Seriously, you don't need a political forum. You need some serious couch time to get over that "Do we really exist?" issue. Just remember what an old psych teacher once asked: "Is this a piece of chalk in my hand, or is it just your perception of a piece of chalk?" This kind if philosophical circle talk will drive you bananas.
"Yes, Virginia, there really is a 'you.'"
Be strong Scythian. If it makes you feel any beter, know that these maniacs have succeeded in creating more fear within their own country than ours. American citizens aren't the ones running like hell toward the borders by the millions.
We need to be brave now, inspite of our fears. This is not the first time our nation has faced uncertainty. We came through WWII alright and that was a dark time for us. (keep up your Prayers, we all need them). I will leave you with a quote from Winston Churchill:
"WITHOUGHT MEASURELESS and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed."
The fact is America has changed forever, it will never be the same, because of our immigration policies, there will always now be an attendent risk to living here, and each person must examine that fact and decide to stay or take their finances and go. I don't intend to make any judgements on whatever a person decides.
These ruling, global elite, in their attempts to control everything, engage in global planning, and in the process step on one too many toes, and they have to compensate for their gross miscaluclations.
You should be afraid. You should be afraid because no effort at al is being made to rid the USA of these vermin, to disconnect us from their 'plan'. Unless the USA defines the real enemy of America, and in a hurry, things will just get a lot worse.
There are reasons why this stuff happens. Everything is carefully planned, thought out and executed. The only thing that will catch the global aristocracy off guard is the second coming of Jesus. In the meantime, they play hames with our lives, manipulating everything under the sun to their considerable advantage, and to our detriment.
These are the people who devise strategies that cause screw ups, and then they devise another strategy to fix the screw up that screws things up even further. They are the people that play god on planet earth, and all they end up becoming is tools of the devil, placing them in comfortable positions of perpetual power, safely out of harms way, while we take the brunt of their screwed up plans, screwing everything up.
What is a screw up? Oh, a stock market collapse where WE lose and THEY win, a global military conflict where WE die and they stay safe, etc.
Who are they? People in govt, and other global planning bodies, like the CFR, and the central bankers. This is what you get when the great Christian nation, the land of the free allows devils to take the reins of power -- and most of these people do not even live in the US; they are all living in France, Amsterdam, and London.
But we do not have to go to all the trouble to get their exact addresses. All We The People have to do is tell congress to abolish the Federal; Reserve Act of 1913, forever ban from USA banking anyone who currently is, return to the constitutionally mandated system of minting money, and take the advice of George Washington and John Adams and disconnect from foreign entanglements. This means kicking the UN out of America.
The USA should cancel all gold and silver certificates with the central bankers, making them null and void, and should send a military escort to Basel and reposses the gold given to the bankers. This is the property of the USA and not the bankers. If they resist, kill them.
Then, we should go after the anti-Christ culture warriors and legislate them out of existence. If they do not like it, they can leave, and go to Afghanistan and complain about their religion, which of course means they would all be killed in the first week they arrived.
Then the USA govt must radically reduce its size, and stick to a constitutional system of taxation (which means NO income tax) to fund constitutionally mandated activities. I bet many people did not realize that in the first Administration, there were only four members in George Washingtons cabinet. Today, well, forget about it. Zillions.
The USA can be a shining light on the hill for all of the world once again, with the Lord's protection. But let me assure you, it will take a lot more than a national ID card, a phoney war against terrorism, another rate cut from the poo poo heads in Swizerland, and a fascist home land security force that will undoubtedly be abused like crazy.
What are the odds of anything happening as I have suggested? Probably ZERO. So I would say that, yeah, we have a LOT to be afraid of. But if we turn our fear into getting educated about who and what the real enemy is and then start doing something about it, who knows, maybe our EFFORTS might produce the types of results where fears fade and hope once again arise.
I am skeptical myself. The only thing that can kick start a legitimate campaign to rid the USA of its foriegn and domestic enemies would be a miracle. Consdiering how fractured the nation is, and how divided even the people on this site are concerning the above. I am not going to hold my breath.
The failure to focus on the true foriegn enemy, and the lack of will to deal with the PC domestic enemy means that the USA will deteriorate into an every man for himself kind of thing, or we will see what amounts to modern tribalism, with groups here and there trying to protect their turf. BUt in the meantime their will be the over arching central govt police state to contend with to make war with the various tribes, an agency that just got a name -- home land security.
Yep, fear makes a lot of sense to me. Buy guns, and land, and gold, and get the heck away from urban centers. That is where I think this is all headed. People caught in urban centers will be sitting ducks as things collapse. The future is DIM because of political correctness, and the fact that our leaders do not have the nuts to tell the global elite (central bankers) to blow off.
And maybe the beast the rises out of the sea, different from all the rest, is a new world coalation with the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the name of peace.