This post is best read to the first two minutes of:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sLZCkpHgbs&feature=related "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man, They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all (Luke 17:26-27)."
As it was in the days of Noah, So shall it be in the days of the Son of man...
Many in the Christian community believe we are living in the last days.
Many Christians through the ages have believed this same thing.
What makes our day, and our time an hour that whispers of Urgency?
I do not know if we live in the last days, but surely the world of men grows dark.
I cannot help but think of candlelight and castles; horses and vastly green battlefields.
A time in history where life was slower, more fragile, yet, perhaps more richly lived.
I am coming to believe that television, sports, music, the internet, all seem to shift our focus away from Christ. The world, the enemy and the cares of life rarely allow the opportunity to
focus on the rich reality of the Word of God. These truths are eternal. They are foundational. They are like hearing the old stories from ancient times that set us free with wonder and excitement to live a life half as rich as the story we are reading or being told.
In this hour of my life. The Lord is pressing upon my heart two things that rise above the rest.
Discipline and Faithfulness.
Discipline in all areas of life, down to the smallest detail. While I am fully human and error in many of these attempts of discipline, its call burns deeply within me.
Faithfulness is the second calling that I hear in this hour. It calls to abandon a life of my own making, security and desires. One that is abandoned to the loving and trustworthy destiny that Christ alone can lead me on. This faithfulness calls from the deep. To be true to the Word of Christ, the ancient stories of the Word, long forgotten and rarely found in this day.
Faithfulness to Biblical Preaching. This art is so lost among ministers and preachers it is shocking. I do not need to go into great detail as to the heretical preaching of "relevance" and "feel good" sermons alone. Conviction of sin, brought about by Christian preaching is as lost today as it was in the Old Testament days of Noah. Bigotry, hatred, false-shame, and intolerance are the response of the masses to its clarion call.
Oh, that the lambs of Christ would become Lions once again. That love would not be self-seeking, but Christ pleasing. That love would once again care more for the unseen eternity of a person, than to allow a fleshly temporal rebellion which leads only to Death.
Christ have mercy on frail, weak humanity.
Give us more of your Holy Spirit that we may love the hurting, the downtrodden, the lonely and those lost in shame.
Make us your hands and feet
Give us a voice that speaks forth the truth, even at great peril and risk.
Make us to rise, and rise again until lambs become lions....
