Tomorrow is Unknown

I feel that the world has gone crazy the past few days, well...the past week or so. I do not recognize the world I am raising my children in. There are days that I really want to just hide and disappear. Get away from the madness that is going on in society.

But I have a Lord who is wonderful, loving, merciful and in charge. Despite the craziness going on all around I cling to that knowledge, to my faith in Him. At church we are taking a good hard look at the times we live in.

In my ladies class we are doing a series in the Book of Joel lead by Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the Reverend Billy Graham. She is talking about the prophecies that are harbingers of the end times revealed in the Book of Revelation. So far we have gone over the unnatural disasters. Take a look at the weather headlines, just to start. Tsunami's, tornado's in places that there have never been tornado's, fire's that have never been seen before. The key phrase you should be looking for in articles is "record breaking." The fires in California are worse than ever before. The tornado's are stronger than ever. Locally, where I am, we have record rainfall. Every time it rains now, there is always flooding. I remember a time or two in the early 2000's that we had some bad floods back home. Now back home is getting the same rain that is flooding my home area now.

The warnings in the Bible are clear. Things will be unique to our generation. In the past few weeks I have seen things I never thought possible. People choosing their own gender, people choosing their own race, those that are to bring clarity to laws making up rules despite the will of the people.

All of this saddens my heart because it has to be grieving my heavenly Father. One of the cornerstones of my faith is the fact that I believe that my God does not make mistakes. So people saying that God made a mistake making them a man and becoming a woman horrifies me. And people denying their family and heritage to pretend to be another race - that is insanity.

This past week the Supreme Court of the Unites States of America ruled that gay marriage is a right in all 50 states. The amount of discord that I have seen is disappointing. People are burning bridges to friendships, there are fights in the news between the different positions.

Here is what I know. God says that homosexuality is a sin. As is fornication, adultery, eating food that has been given to idols, women are not to cut their hair, and more than a few other things. If people would stop picking and choosing from the Bible what pleases them they would see the bigger picture. Do I agree with what SCOTUS did? No, not at all. The Constitution of the United States of America makes it clear that any things not made clear in it is to be determined by the states. Many of our 50 nifty Unites States have made their choice known and decided to not permit "gay marriage" in their state. These decisions were made by the voters. The Justice's discarded the will of the people and that is horrifying. They have overstepped their bounds. Am I happy with what happened no. I do believe marriage is between one man and one woman. But to be honest, good Christian's have made just a big of a mockery of marriage as SCOTUS did with the divorce rate. If we really cherish marriage why aren't we fighting the demise of the family unit as it is being destroyed by divorce. I know what divorce can do to a family, to a person. My parent's divorced when I was my daughter's age and my mom had one more divorce after that. Thankfully she found what she was looking for 20 1/2 years ago when she met the man I call dad. I am blessed to have two man who love me and look after me, but that is not always the case. But even still there was a good deal of heart ache and hurt that I had to overcome as I grew up and started having dealings with men.

So no I am not happy with the decision. I do not agree with our President turning the White House into a rainbow (a symbol of God's promise) or calling the decision a victory. I am a realist though. I realize that not every traditional marriage will end in divorce and not everyone who is homosexual is going to want to get "married." The world we live in is very upside down these days, and it is only going to get worse. I do believe we are in the end times. Our Pastor is going over the letters to the seven church's in the Book of Revelation. He talked about the church that compromised this past week (God's timing/plan is perfect). America has compromised and has sold itself in the name of protection. But our real enemy is not each other but Satan. He is stirring the fires of discord and discontent to distract us from the real issues going on. Greece has stopped making their payments on their debt, their citizens cannot touch their own money. There is about to be financial upheaval unseen before. I heard about a stadium being built overseas. Some 4,000 people have died building it. The poor are being exploited. Every week there is another sting operation flushing out pedophiles and predators. The world is crumbling all around but we have our head so filled with junk we do not see it. We are focused on all the wrong things.

I do not agree with the decision but my God is in charge. Homosexuality is a sin in the Bible. Partaking in it is the same is being caught in adultery. Sin is all equal to God. And any sin anyone takes part in they will be held accountable for it. People can make a mockery out of God, His word, and the sacrifice His son made. They can do it, and while it breaks my heart, God is a gentleman and will allow it. But He is giving us warnings. The time I getting closer. And while we do not know when, eventually the time will come when all is over. God will send His Son back to reign. God want's all to repent and come back to Him. It isn't too late yet, but remember, we are not guaranteed tomorrow.