My friend Billy gave me a book a couple of weeks ago called "Wild Goose Chase". Sounds weird I know but, in a nutshell, it's about finding adventure in Pursuing God. It's taken me on many hills and valleys and at times I have to just put the book down and pray. I don't take enough chances in my spiritual life. I seem to live very safely. Sure, I get on a spiritual tangent every once in a while. I always speak out during Sunday School or Bible Study and take over the class whenever possible. But as far as my own spiritual journey I have been nestled in the safety of home. I never really go out on a limb anymore. When I was leading worship and leading choir I was one more radical human being. I would litererally do anything that God led me to do. So much that at times I would find myself apologizing after the service. I would feel embarrased when I thought back to the service. The choir, the congregation and the pastor always seemed to enjoy it when I "lost control" and "danced" across the stage. Where is that person? Where is the man that was so passionate about worship. I long to be lost. Lost in the presence of God. It is there and only there that I am truely found and free.
I feel an ergency these days. The shape of the economy, the pending Presidential election, the condition of the church. All these things lead me to believe that it is time.......Time to get your affairs in order.
Every Prophecy teacher has a different opinion about the sequence of events. I don't profess to be a prophet. I just know that God is stirring me up spiritually.
It's scary how little the every day Christian knows about the end times. And how they get this look of panic on their faces when they realize that prophecy is unfolding before our eyes. I tend to believe that God's people will be saved from the judgement of the Tribulation. Others I know would disagree. I just have to trust God and look at the history. Noah and his family were saved from the judgement of the flood. Lot and his family were saved from the distruction of Sodom. God's people are always given a way of escape from judgement. I can't believe that God would allow us to suffer the horrors of the Tribulation. Not that we don't deserve it. It would certainly weed out the goats in our midst. But God very seldom gives us what we deserve. If God dealt out judgement for all the evil we did or punished us every time we failed to live up to the standard we would all be in a mess.
It is time, I believe, to get our afairs in order. It is time for the awakening!!
Blessings
Allen
