Check Your Radar

Have you noticed that the same news stories are playing over and over again? Why is that? Are we caught in a time loop? Or are we humans just SO boring that we can't come up with anything different?

The root word in "news" is NEW. If we've seen it before, it's not really "news," is it?

And the weather; what did we do before we had weather radar? Well, we probably got wet during our family picnic. There was no way to see what was coming before radar. We just hoped for good weather.

There were signs of coming weather back in Jesus' day. Jesus Himself told us this.

“When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times." - Matthew 16:2-3

The signs of the times. Hmm. Jesus warned us that we should be watchful and that we would be able to tell when the time of Jesus' return was near. He also encouraged us to persevere through all of these "news stories" and that soon He would come back for us.

So, how do we do that? How can we get through all of these stories of gloom and doom? That's easy, and difficult, at the same time. The easy part is this: Trust in God. The difficult part, however, is exactly the same: Trusting God. Believing in God and trusting God are two different things. Both are required.

John tells us how to overcome "the world"

"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" - 1 John 5:4-5

Recently, someone told me that I was an extremely positive person. What's my secret? How can I stay positive in such a depressing world? Jesus! I have placed my faith and hope in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. And that, my friends, has made all the difference in the world, like Robert Frost said.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - . I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost, 1920

Relatively few will place their faith in Christ, "the narrow road." Will you be one of them? I sure hope so.