Posted on 06/30/2020 7:14:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is He coming here, or are we going There.
“Should we plan for the future...?”
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Yes
I’m sure someone asked that question in 1914. And in 1942. And in 1948. And in 2017.
Jesus sent a note:
“You are on your own. Good luck. I will be back when I can.”
That is how I plan my life.
“Soon” could be thirty years. Or a hundred.
In 1988 as well.
Matthew 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Planning is not worry.
Luke 14
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Most likely we are seeing “birth pangs”, but the Bible clearly states that ONLY the Father knows the time, not even the Son knows. I don’t see any benefit to this kind of pure speculation. We are also clearly told that we should live EVERY day like He is coming tomorrow, that he will come like a thief in the night. Hyperventilating about it is unnecessary . . . IF you are ready.
“Instead, , you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.””
James 4:15
This neatly answers the question because it presents a condition under which we might plan: that we acknowledge the future is in His hands.
Don’t forget comets Kahoutek and Elenin!
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.”
Death is coming for all of us in the not-to-distant future. Maybe its tomorrow, or maybe its 80 years from now. either way, In God’s time, its the blink of an eye.
Of course we might go THERE at any moment.
My old man was very caught up in all the “End is Near stuff” in the late 80’s. He was a very devout man, but went off the deep end IMHO.
Although he did end up dying un-expectantly in 1988 - so, the end WAS near for him. Just as it could be for me - today.
We know He is coming, but we don’t know when, much less “soon” ...
Yeah I don’t get it it seems a lot of people are in a rush for the end times. I’m in no particular rush at all :-)
maybe they either lived their lives already and are old and don’t care or they just can’t handle this world. I can understand that.
but Jesus said he will come like a thief in the night. It doesn’t get more clear than that.
He didn’t say I will come like a thief in the night but if you really pay attention to possible prophecies that you interpret in your own way in the Bible then maybe you can figure out what night.
I had a friend in college that, if he woke up in the night, he would leap to the window to look for Jesus. I thought it was sort-of weird. He acknowledged that it was, but he viewed it more as sort of a spiritual training. “I will come like a thief in the night.”
He did it for an entire year. Then he moved on to other things to strengthen his faith.
Few plan for the future anyway, why bother.
...“Instead, , you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.””
Lord’s Will, or the creek don’t rise
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