If you close your eyes......you can start to see it, all that has been foretold is even now upon us; even the great and terrible day of the Lord.
All is now in place, all is now in order: The enemy has marshaled his troops onto the battlefield of the minds of men, and the first clashes between the people of God and the minions of hell have become apparent. Sunday morning, in a small town in Illinois, people drove to church under the threat of heavy thunderstorms and tornado activity, only to be witnesses to the storm inside that would take the life of a pastor, wound two more, and traumatize hundreds of others.
The people in the pews watched as if at a Broadway play....mesmerized.....curious.....interested.... as a lone individual began to walk up towards the platform, and began to engage the pastor in conversation, mere moments before he pulled his semi-automatic 45 handgun, and began to fire at the pastor, who attempted to deflect the incoming bullets with his Bible. The people, afterwards, tell their thoughts of thinking that the air was filled with confetti, as the bullets slammed into the Bible, pushing out paper from Genesis to Revelation, as they sped toward their intended target. Two men, out of hundreds of those available, rushed to apprehend the crazed gunman as his semi-automatic jammed after the fourth shot. There they struggled with him as he drew a knife, stabbing himself and those two brave men; one seriously.
I guess we could remedy the situation by buying bigger, armor-plated Bibles, as my cousin jokingly responded to my brother, but we are in a struggle that has now begun. It is bigger than one crazy man who had a bad day. It is bigger than our religious soap operas that masquerade as the worship of the Almighty God. Bigger than the competitive gimmicks that ministries use to fill their churches with people JUST to entertain with a moral lesson. This is where the sons of God are revealed: As creation and the world observe, literally crying out for SOMEONE to arise and give direction out of this mess, BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN DECLARE THAT THEIR LIVES ARE OVER, AND THEY RUN TOWARD THE ENEMY OF THE HOUR!
Is your life OVER? Have you counted ALL as lost, but your PURPOSE? The reason you live..... the thing in Jesus that you were created for, this very hour, is now upon you. Will you run to the battle, or sit in your seat.....observing the skit.....drinking your cafe mocha latte.....texting your golf buddy.....generally "loving" Jesus, but SPECIFICALLY doing nothing? If you don't know what I mean, you're in the wrong church. If you do know what I mean; Welcome to the beginning of the CHANGE.
