tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12630513.post1063720696548309154..comments2010-06-09T15:23:12.832-07:00Comments on Words from the Heart: FEAR NOTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12630513.post-48815985431719942312008-05-30T09:38:00.000-07:002008-05-30T09:38:00.000-07:00I agree that it's important to not be afraid. I d...I agree that it's important to not be afraid. I don't know that our times are all that different from times in the past but more that we have global access to information about what's going on. I think too, that people use the events that are closest to them as the means by which they judge whether the end is near or not. <BR/><BR/>We tend to forget that other parts of the world have been having a much more difficult time than we have. Had we lived in Russia at the time the communists took over, would we have thought this was signalling the end of the world? What about when communist Russia took over much of Eastern Europe? Or during the time of the great famine in the Ukraine artificially arranged as a form of genocide? Or what if we had been Armenians in 1924 (I think it was) when the Turkish government was using methods way crueler than Hitler to kill off a race and take their land? At the end of the 19th century, a large group of Americans was convinced that Jesus would come in 1884 and had all the signs to prove it.<BR/><BR/>I believe that most Christians now and through the ages have been more than eager for Christ to come and probably expected it to happen during their lifetime. Look at the writings of the New Testament! Even the apostles were certain the day was imminent.<BR/><BR/>And yet to shrug our shoulders and say that he won't come now is dangerous because, as Jesus said, no one knows the time. We need to be ready. We need to live as though he was coming today. I wonder how many of us actually do.Debbie Haughland Chanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05953143365720196539noreply@blogger.com