As we look around us today, and experience decisions our society is making, along with the behavior of people, we are inclined to think that our world is falling apart, for example, young children changing their sex, advocating for the death of unborn babies, callings miscarriages abortions, biological men identifying as women to participate in women’s sports, drag queen story hour but not approving a Christian author reading his book, changing the race of historical figures, etc.

But God gives us a different perspective in His Word.

As I’ve spent the last several years studying the major and minor prophetic writings, I understand more of the context of what God is doing today.

In those writings, God gives us insight into the condition of the world in those days (and our days). 

People were corrupt.

Politics were corrupt.

Priests were corrupt.

Prophets were liars (false prophets, not God’s faithful prophets).

Here are a few of God’s words regarding the character of people in Israel’s past:

Micah 2:1-2: “Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.”

Micah 3:1-3: “Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice, you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones; who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”

Judges 17:6 sums it up well: “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

But God also reveals in those prophetic writings, where He was leading them, and also where He is leading us – toward repentance and restoration in relationship with Him.

I came across this statement in a study I’m doing: “The world is not falling apart, but rather falling into place.”

That perspective gives us hope! Hope because God is leading us on His path to the New Heaven and New Earth.

The part we aren’t fond of is what we are experiencing until that takes place.

I realized that I can look at everything I experience through the lens of “everything falling into place”.

As I do that, faith replaces fear, nervous anxiousness diminishes, and hope rises up in my heart and mind!

Then I can be a better servant of the Lord. 

Everyone wants to feel hopeful. But God is the only One who gives us hope backed by His unlimited power and abilities to make happen what He states will take place.

History proves that truth! History proves that when God makes a promise, He will keep it. The Bible is filled with those promises, and prophecies, that God backs and brings about in His way, in His timing, for His glory, and for our benefit!

Below are some of God’s promises for future blessings for those who love Jesus as Lord and Savior:

Micah 4:6-7: “In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles and those I have brought to grief. I will make the lame my remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.”

Revelation 21:1-5: “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.  He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelation 22:1-5: “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.”

These are amazing promises! In God they are more than promises – they are fact. We haven’t realized them yet, but soon, we will.

Please remember, if Jesus is not your Lord and Savior, you do not have these blessings in your future. But God is giving you this moment to change that. At this very moment you can confess your sinful state, your need for Jesus to rectify that, and for you to enter God’s eternal kingdom as His child. 

Following God is a commitment. It’s not always an easy commitment because our world and our enemy, Satan, are leading us in the opposite direction from God. But God, through His Holy Spirit, indwells every person who makes a life commitment to Jesus. It is through the Spirit’s power that we are able to keep our commitment to the Lord. It is through the Spirit’s power that we are able to make that commitment to the Lord. 

Have you made that commitment to Jesus? If so, then you are waiting with me as we experience God leading everything into its right place! If you have not made this commitment, I’d be glad to talk with you about what is holding you back from making Jesus your Lord and Savior.

I’m available if you want to talk. You can reach me at: ButGodCares@gmail.com.

Living for Jesus, Donna

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