My Hope Is Buit on Nothing Less...

"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is in him."
Jeremiah 17:7

Recently we attended a web-inar(fancy word for a seminar we had to sit in a tiny sweaty room to watch) about disease pathology and auto-immune disorders. During the discussion I was frequently brought to the verse in  Luke 21:11 ¹¹ There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

The word in the above verse that most intrigued me was pestilences you see during this discussion the doctors were talking first about all the diseases that we had assumed we'd eradicated but have just come back around only stronger, things such as Polio, Pertussis(whooping cough) and Tuberculosis are making a startling come back in the United States. Now our original vaccinations, and treatments for such things have become all but void and doctors are having to come up with new ways to treat and protect from these diseases.


But what was even more interesting to me was all the new things that are attacking our bodies. The main thing during this seminar being bacteria overgrowth in our intestines, kidneys and a multitude of other systems that we need to survive. They have managed to link bacterial overgrowth to Auto-immune disorders such as Lupus, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis. They have linked it to Cancer and a near cornucopia of other inflammatory disorders. The big problem is that if you can find and treat these bacteria's they are able to morph themselves and become resistant to what they are being treated with so most people that are being treated are going through round after round of antibiotics with only temporary results.  After the seminar was over one of the doctors said to the rest of us, "Well we might as well go get a drink and wait to die."


That ominous statement made me start thinking about the world perspective on things like this. The hopelessness that they feel when they think about the fragility of our lives. When I read Matthew 21:11 or Revelation 6: 7-8

 Revelation 6: 7-8 ⁷ When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” ⁸ I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. 

Instead of feeling like I may as well just give up, I felt renewed strength. As it says in
Matthew 24: 32-22  ³² “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you know that the end is near, right at the door.

I believe that nothing else has to happen for the Lord to come back, nothing! Therefore instead of feeling as though we may as well give up, we should be hurrying out to help people around us because the time is short. 
Luke 10:2  ² He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.


As a final thought, if you found out that Jesus was coming back on Monday, how would that change what you did for the next four days?  

Until next time: The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord be gracious to you, make His face shine upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26