Do you keep up with world news?  If so, does it seem to you that something worse-than-usual is taking place?  It’s getting meaner out there:  more violent … more wicked … more, perhaps, like the days of Noah.  The entire world seems to be rushing pell-mell into chaos.  It’s as if something evil – and intelligent – has been turned loose upon the world.

• Unbridled sexual perversions are turning the world into a global Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Terrorism – often in the name of a false god – continues to gain momentum, leaving its swath of murder on every continent.
• Identity thieves and computer hackers threaten everything from an individual’s checking account to international security.
• Wars:  In July of 2014, there were ten “wars” (1,000⁺ battle-related deaths / year) and eight “serious armed conflicts” in progress throughout the world.

Certainly, not all of this instability is moral in nature.

• Financial markets are driven today by real-time news and digital transactions.  A downward swing in the economy of a single region can panic all the other markets around the world within a matter of minutes.
• Earthquakes:  Over the last 60 months (June, 2010 – June, 2015), there have been 124 earthquakes throughout the world measuring a magnitude of 6.0 or higher on the Richter Scale (89 of these registering 7.0 or higher).
• Global warming:  Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate predict that the average global temperatures could increase between 1.4⁰ – 5.8⁰ Celsius by 2100.

This turmoil of the nations is not only global, it is also out of control.  No human agency or government seems capable of restoring order from the chaos.  The issues are just too large … too complex … too intense to be solved by the cleverness of man.  If it were not for the restraining hand of our sovereign God, events would spiral completely out of control on every front.

But there is something about this encroaching darkness we should not overlook. With each news report, God’s many promises to the true and living Church grow brighter and brighter.  As the world continues its reckless race toward destruction, let those redeemed by the blood of the Lamb lock their attention on these assurances of God:

His promise of an eternal life

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.  (John 3:16)

His promise of an eternal residence in the Father’s palace

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places.  If it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.  (John 14:2)

His promise of the Savior’s return for us

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.  (John 14:3)

His promise of a body changed from clay to glory

We will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.  For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.  For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.  (1^st Corinthians 15:51-53)

His promise of a new earth

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.  (Revelation 21:1)

This blueprint for our future is not some wishful, pie-in-the-sky dream.  It is a bedrock fact based upon the integrity of God’s Word and confirmed by the resurrection of His Son. Every one of these promises awaits the re-born follower of Jesus Christ.  Do you believe that?  We should.  Our God is faithful.  He keeps His Word.

So, while everyone else is wringing their hands in despair as they watch their world come apart at the seams, let those of us who cling to the living God walk through our days with confidence in Christ … and with courage in Christ … and with a sense of stability in Christ. Let those who reject the Cross of Jesus pace the floor at night.  But those who have fled to the saving grace of God … let us all get a good night’s sleep.

After all, the dazzling promises of a faithful God make for a soft pillow.

Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, extends to the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.  (Psalm 36:5)

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