May the mumbling commence!
Well, well, well. Here we are. It is December 22, 2012. The fact that I am writing this mumble and the fact that you are reading it is proof that the world did not end yesterday. So much for the hypothesis based upon the Mayan calendar ending…
I cannot say that I am surprised. I am generally suspicious when someone or some group of people purports to know more than the Christ. Jesus did not know the time of the end. How could the Mayans know the time?
Could it have been the end of the world yesterday? Yes, it could have been. Could the end of the world be today? It could be. One day the end will come, but no one but the Lord knows the timing. If we continue to predict the end, then eventually by pure coincidence we will be right.
Regardless of the Lord’s timing, we are to be ready and alert and awake. What if the world, as we know it, did end yesterday? What if we were to change our very natures from the depths of the attitudes of our hearts to the fruit of those attitudes in what we think and say and do?
That would be a great thing. Our world is broken, after all. Watch and listen to the news, and you will know that. Let us go to the Lord with our brokenness – our own personal brokenness and our corporate brokenness. Read from Psalm sixty:
O God, You have cast us off;
You have broken us down;
You have been displeased;
Oh, restore us again!
You have made the earth tremble;
You have broken it;
Heal its breaches, for it is shaking.
You have shown Your people hard things;
You have made us drink the wine of confusion.
You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah (Verses 1-4)
In many ways, we feel cast off. We are floating without purpose or dreams or direction or leadership. We are broken down, and we haven’t the slightest idea how to get going again. We need Your restoration, O Lord.
We tremble with brokenness and illness. We need the healing hand of the Great Physician upon our bodies and minds and hearts and souls. We have seen hard things – things that repulse us. But, still, things of our own creation. We have drank the wine of confusion – of pain and hurt and ignorance and fleeting fame. We truly have nowhere to turn.
So, in fear, we turn to You, O Lord. You tell us over and over again, “Do not fear”, “Do not be afraid”. Raise Your banner over us. And the banner of the Lord over us is love. Let us display the banner of the Lord’s love because of the truth it brings – truth that will dispel and detoxify us from the wine of confusion that we have drunk. Perhaps, we will begin to see the way forward to restoration and reconciliation – peace and goodwill to all people.
An end to pain and hurt and ignorance and fear and confusion – that is an end to celebrate and pursue! May yesterday have been the beginning of the end for these things! Search our hearts, O God. Heal us. Read from Proverbs chapter twenty:
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the inner depths of his heart. (Verse 27)
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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