World Events

Mon, Jun 14, 2010

Q & A

WORLD EVENTS

Dr. Lewis Gregory

Q. Is God sharing anything with you about what is going to be happening in the next few years?

A. Not specifically, but the Bible indicates that things generally have to get worse before they can get better. Desperate conditions are usually required before we get desperate for God. People today are much like those in the city of Laodicea described in Rev. 3:17-18. We are oblivious to our real need, and thus our only hope is to be tried by fire. Jesus told us that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Well so do the fiery trials. Remember that the purpose of a fiery trial is to purge and purify you, in order to bring out the best in you. As a Christian, the best in you is your new creation self in union with Christ. Pray that God would grant you the grace to go through the fiery trials and come out without the smell of smoke! Also pray that God would rule and overrule in the affairs of men. Seek Him with all your heart. Redeem the time by working while it is day, for the night comes when no one will be able to work. However, your labor must be according to His working, which works in you mightily. Therefore allow Him to do His good and perfect work through you. And such labor will not be in vain in the Lord! Regardless of world conditions, you are safe and secure in Him. Vain is the help of man, but Jesus never fails. And He will never leave you or forsake you. The best-case scenario is that through it all, God will take you home to be with Him! Either way look up, for your redemption is drawing near!