Jumping the Gun

Sometimes we are so anxious for something to happen we rush to judgment.   Email, Facebook, Twitter and all the other forms of media communication have made it so easy to almost instantly disseminate stories and rumors that feed into what we want to hear.  There is such an array of available information, true or false, it makes “cherry picking” super easy.   We can Google our way through hundreds of thousands of sources of so called truth, picking out what fits what we want to believe and ignoring anything else that might cause us to rethink.

For a great part of my ministry I loved to preach about the soon second coming of Jesus.  I subscribed to Time, Newsweek and U. S. News and World Report specifically looking for anything that would support what I wanted to believe and preach.  It was something congregations love to hear.  However, about halfway through my career I wearied of crying “Wolf, Wolf” and shifted to an emphasis on the glory of the cross and its fruit in our lives.  The important message is not inheriting the Kingdom sometime in the future but becoming a citizen of God’s Kingdom right now.   If we love Jesus and allow Him to be in control of our lives He will come when He knows all is ready and we are secure.

Written by Roger Bothwell on April 18, 2013

Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574

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