etba_ss JSobieski
3 months ago
That is the key. Be prepared, but do not let anxiety and worry rule your life. Do what you are supposed to do and let God handle the rest.

It is a bit off topic, but as Americans, we are so conditioned to avoid hardship and persecution that we think when our society turns against Christians (which is happening now) that the world is over. It might be. I don't dig too far into to trying to figure out when the world will end, as we are told that no one knows. We should be prepared for it at any time and prepared also for it to not happen in our lifetimes. The Apostles thought it would happen in their lifetimes. If they were that wrong about that and about how little of Jesus' teachings they got until after his death and resurrection, I hate to think of how much I miss and how much I have wrong.

At the very least, we are headed to a society where there is a real cost of being a Christian. For 250 years, we've had a country that accepted Christianity as the norm and at least pretended to have Christian morals as its underpinning. We are entering a time when that is not just no longer the case, but where society is in open and vocal rebellion against Christianity and against God. Short of a national revival, the question is not if, but when, this happens. We will see the wheat separated from the chaff when it is no longer easy or convenient to be a cultural christian.