Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hope

As I randomly read the news today I noticed several different things.

in one article they were wondering if there was a war on police officers with 11 killed across America in a few days period.

Another article was about the mystery birds falling out of the sky, to find out they were poisoned for being pests.

Another article talks about churches that are going into foreclosure at an alarming rate. And there were many others of the same nature.

It’s not quite a world gone bad; it’s a world gone crazy.

Yet Jesus told us these days would come upon the earth in the book of Matthew. For all the uncertainty in our world, one thing you can count on – Jesus is coming!

So with a world in a free fall, should we, the church, not come out of hiding and tell the world Jesus is their shelter in any storm. That God does love people. That there is hope. It’s time for Christians to show that we are following Christ. In times of trouble we want to follow those who know what to do. Let’s be like the men of Issachar in the Bible, who knew what to do in troubled times.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong