I have no idea when Christ is going to come back for His
Church. What I do know, however,
is that we are living in the last days and have been living in them since the
birth of Jesus' Church recorded in Acts chapter two. What I know, too, based on the words of an Old Testament
prophet, is that in these ongoing last days God has been at work in His world
through His Messiah.
There are many religions in the world, many gods, but
Micah 4:5 speaks for the people of Yahweh, "Though all the peoples walk
each in the name of his god, as for us, we will walk in the name of the LORD
our God forever and ever." And, just who is "our God?" He is the God who brings people to the
place of peace. In His community
people "hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning
hooks." When God is worshiped
as the Living God "Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never
again will they train for war" (Micah 4:3).
When people are calling for war and retaliation and
retribution one can count on the fact that in that people Jesus isn't
Lord. They may call Him Lord but
their actions don't rise up to their words. His people continually live before God and they are always
saying, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house
of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk
in His paths" (Micah 4:2).
This old world has been beat up on for too long. She is bleeding and hurting, gasping
for breath. When will we put away
our swords and let God be God?
Please, somebody, tell me, when.
Whatever the answer might be, let it start in the Church of Jesus.
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