End of the World

I do not understand why everyone is so concerned over the world ending.  I have heard and seen written more and more things on this, and it makes me curious as to this fascination to the end.  It is written in the bible that we will not know the day or time.  We do not know when the end of the world will come.  The world is a scary place and we look around us at how we are living as a society, and it too can be a scary place.  All you have to do is turn on the news and you see who beat up who, who killed who, and the list goes on and on.  Have we become so immune to death?  We see it in front of us all the time and it means nothing.  All this anger is what is scary to me.  People are angry and they are acting out on it.  Where is hope?  Where is faith?  Where is love?  Why so much anger? 

For me, I do not dwell on the bad things, there are too many good things that are happening.  I cannot convince people there is a loving God and I am not going to try to.  What I can do is show God's love through my behavior, through my love, but not through words.  Words seem to mean nothing.  People need to be fed, they need to be clothed.  It is hard to talk of God's love when the basics are not even being met.  Our church is going to open a clothing bank.  It is going to be a lot of work and will take a lot of time and effort.  I am looking forward to this because it means as a church we are reaching out to our community and letting them know we care.  There are good things happening, we need to look for them instead of looking always for the bad. 

So I guess my pet peeve right now that I need to write about is this preoccupation with the end of the world.  What does it matter if it ends or when it ends.  What matters is how we live our lives today. 

Posted by Anna