It’s Saturday afternoon and I’ve just returned from walking the kids (you know what I mean). That means its prime blogging time – the perfect time to put into words, or video, an interesting, humorous or annoying observation from this past week. But for some reason it doesn’t seem appropriate the piss and moan about sports results, or discuss the circumstances surrounding the very likely possibility of a 2011-2012 NFL lockout, or share with you my brief but amusing encounter with a quintessentially ‘Las Vegas’ drunken reveler in the lobby of the Treasure Island (hotel) at 6:30am Friday morning – not with everything that is going on in the world.
It might be better to leave all those things for another time and instead just reserve some time to reflect on the current state of things and to pray. Pray for those who are trying to survive ongoing conflict in the Middle East and Libya, and cope with recent disaster in Queensland, in Christchurch, in Japan, in New York (crazy bus accident just today), and all around the World. Pray for those closer to us on a personal level – our friends and family members – who are dealing with financial or health or relationship concerns. And of course pray that we ourselves will recognize these things as a chance to gain perspective on what is really important … or perhaps realize what should be most important … in our earthly lives.
Every generation of Seventh-Day Adventism since the denomination began probably had many who felt that the 2nd coming would happen during their lifetime – based on apocalyptic world events such these. At this moment I don’t think I’m in that segment of my generation, but one thing I’m certain of ... God doesn’t want to see everything He created suffering from these things beyond they can bear and He WILL come back to put an end to it one day!
Revelation 21:4
