Pray for the World

Has there ever been a time when the world did not appear to be on the precipice of calamity? Has there ever been a time when the threat of impending disaster did not loom? Has there not always poverty? Has there not always been man's inhumanity to his fellow man? Has there not always been war? Has there not always been the rumor of war?

These things are well known to our race. We have lived with them for the entirety of our lives as did our ancestors before us. But something has changed. There is a sense of foreboding that is increasingly prevalent and there is a feeling of inevitability that encompasses our expectation. 

Perhaps because there is a rising movement that covets death more than our culture covets life; perhaps because there is a resolve to their feverish compulsion to destroy civilization as we know it that is unmatched in our endeavor to defend our way of life that causes us to feel we are caught in a quicksand of hatred that must ultimately have its way.

Whatever rationale we may put to our current circumstances, we are astute enough to grasp the reality that the solution to our dilemma does not lie in our leadership, for our leaders appear oblivious to our peril.

Our deliverance won't come through negotiated peace with our enemy, for our enemy longs to die beside us as he propels us from life to death.

Our hope doesn't lie in the philosophy of the western world that assures us that prosperity is the foundation of a lasting peace on which all men of all military and religious and cultural persuasions can build a future together.

No...our only hope lies where it has always been. Our only hope lies at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ who gave Himself for us so we can find a haven of rest at His nail-scared feet.