Imagine

Time and time again, I hear words like, "Our country is under God's judgment", "it's going down the tube", "we're on a slippery slope", etc.  And yes, I do see and hear evidences of darkness, but I would say that since the fall, those things have been occurring.  Really, all you have to do is read the Word and realize the atrocities men have committed throughout this little dot on the line called "Time".  But thanks be to God for His Word, for Godly men called to be preachers of His Word and for a people called out by Him to be set apart and the joy of fellowship with those people!!

However, God does "declare" a time when the world will be devoid of even those encouragements.  "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for the hearing the words of the LORD.  People will stagger from sea to sea and from north even to the east; they will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, but they will not find it." Amos 8:11-12   Now this prophecy takes my breath away.  I cannot fathom such a time.  I don't want to be here for such a time.  And it makes me thankful, even in the midst of large patches of darkness across our great country, that we still see and hear the Light that gives us comfort and encouragement.

I could develop this post, going from one idea to another to show how a time like that would look.  But it would be far too long.  So, if you would, "imagine" and as you go through thought after thought, praise God for His blessings that such a time is not yet realized.  And ask Him for the power to be such an influence on your world, that darkness will not be allowed to overtake it!  "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."  John 1:5