What In The World Is Happening?

This is just a quick observation...

Yesterday as I was driving between jobs I had on an AM news station.  In just a 5 minute update they mentioned that the stock market had fallen 150 points, the country of Libya is in shambles as a their Dictator attempts to cling to power, oil jumped to over $100 per barrel for the first time in two years (which explains $3.15/gallon gas) and finally President Obama told the attorney general not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (which defines marriage as the institution between a man and a woman.)  

In just a few short minutes of listening to the news updates I had the thought, 

...our once great nation is going down in flames fast...

I know that sounds like an extremely pessimistic attitude, but as I see and hear about each of these things, I can't help but wonder when Jesus is coming back.  

Furthermore, I realized that as we lose hope in everything we see around us: our government, our citizens, our very way of life--it forces us to believe in and hope in the only One that is constant and unchanging.

I know that regardless of the situation in the world, my Jesus loves me.  My Jesus is preparing a place for me right now.  Regardless of the decay of this country from within as we move further and further away from a strong moral belief system, God is still in control.  Even though it is getting increasingly difficult to stay afloat financially with limited work and depressed wages, I know that my future is secure.

I know things are incredibly difficult right now.  All you have to do is look around to see that. But know that all is not hopeless.  As our hope fades in the things that have always been constant and sustained us, remember that this world is not our home.  We are preparing for eternity.  

Jesus is still Lord. 

 You still have a home in Heaven.  

Don't lose hope.  

Keep pushing on.

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PS…for what it’s worth, here is a link to a website that Mike Huckabee has set up that is urging us to sign a petition to defend marriage as a sacred union between a man and a woman.  I've done it, so should you.

http://www.huckpac.com/?Fuseaction=Newsroom.Article&ID=228