How do we interpret the times we are in?
I am not seeing a doomsday here but the sand on which we have built Western culture is being exposed as easily shifted.
And exposing the false foundations of our society – in this case our pride and incessant appetite – is pretty much the definition of Biblical judgment.
Come to think of it, relying on bilateral trade to keep the peace means we count on world leaders’ greed to be greater than their thirst for domination.
Even if it’s been proven mostly correct for our lifetime it is a profoundly immoral basis for society.
Let us turn to God; acknowledge before Him that we have put our trust in something – all kinds of things – other than Him. For as the proverb has it, where there is life there is hope, and with Jesus even when there there is only death, there is life.
Will there be hard times ahead – possibly; even probably. Does it matter? Yes because human suffering moves Jesus to the core. Does it CHANGE anything? No, it doesn’t change anything for Jesus is the same yesterday’s today and forever.
But I do pray it will change us.
– Anders Litzell, Chaplain; 15 March 2022