If You're Reading This, We're Still Here

"................................" Mayan Calendar

Well, we're still here…even though the Mayan calendar, which starts on a Mayan date called 4 Ahau 8 Cumku ends today. There are a lot of people who believe the conclusion of the calendar portends the end of life on earth as we know it. Today, 'same-old-same-old' today, proves them wrong. We will go through today as we have gone through all our yesterdays. We will continue to live and move and have our being in Jesus, the One who gives us life.

Each of us knows our personal transition from time to eternity can occur at any time and we know that the promise of Jesus' return, when He shall burst forth from the eastern sky is an eventuality that will occur in accordance with the Father's pre-established time table. But as the Word, that cannot fail and cannot lie tells us, "No man knows the day or the hour, only our Father in heaven."

So we continue to trust the Lord today as we did yesterday and as we know we must for all our tomorrows. We continue to believe that He holds time and space and all that exists in the palm of His hand and that He will abide with us as we abide with Him because we believe that Jesus is 'the ultimate good' and our faith extends beyond mere acceptance of His being the Author and Finisher of everything…

…Our faith embraces the truth that He is working everything that transpires on this fallen planet to the good of people who place their lives in His loving hands. We know that there will be good experiences and bad experiences. We know there will be successes and there will be failures. We know there will be moments of rapturous joy in our lives and there will be moments of sadness, but we know that all things are working to our good.

The Word tells us to praise God for all things in all circumstances. Our praise evidences our complete trust in Him and He tells us that He inhabits our praise. When we are praising Him, He is able to evidence His presence and power with us to a fuller degree than at any other time, so we lift up our praise and extol His Holy Name, trusting that as we do, His unseen but mighty hand is at work in our behalf.

We trust Him that today and for all the tomorrows He gives to us, He will be at work in our behalf; and we trust Him that on that glorious day when He calls us to Himself we will fully perceive the beautiful things He has prepared for us which we presently see only "through a glass darkly."

The Mayan Calendar may have failed to meet the expectation of some people who anticipated time would end today, but Jesus will not disappoint our expectation that He shall come again--for each of us individually or all of us collectively--at His appointed time. Until He does, we will continue to love Him and trust Him and wait for HIm, for just as all the prophecies of His first coming are proven true, so will be all those that assure He will come again, so we rejoice that our hope is in the One who is eternal and eternally true.