Don't go clearing the supermarkets

I can't help but have negative feelings about all this hubub dealing with the "end of the world", at least as far as it has been anticipated for tomorrow (5/21). I'm very tired of humans constantly trying to pin down God's plan for the world. God is God, the Bible simply states, as many people on facebook have written "no one knows the day or the hour..." and more specifically, "only the father knows".

We worry ourselves with how and when the end will come. We buy apocalypse survival kits because of things such as annihilation 2011. Some of us even give in to these biblically unsound doctrines of how the world will end because we want to be "prepared" for it to end. I'm not talking about spiritually prepared, the Bible says that in this way we should be prepared for the Lord's return. However I am talking about people who are preparing by buying gallons of water and sticking to the news channels.

Biblically speaking the date of the end will be when no one expects it, when no one is ready for it, when it's just another day. This whole rage about May 21st 2011 and sometime in 2012 is just human speculation. This fear that grips some people, yes even some Christians, makes these suggestions about the end an idol in their lives.

Am I slightly distraught about a mere man predicting the day and time of the end of the world which is ultimately the Lord's work and not our own? Absolutely. I think if we are so bold as to start ruffling up feathers about the very day and time of Christ's second coming then I think we can be so bold as to seek the actual truth. The truth that can put some people's hearts in an uproar...

WE DON'T AND WON'T KNOW

I hope that we can become more wise in seeking the counsel of our Holy God and resting in the fact that if we believe and have trusted in him that our names are written in the book of Life. In this way we will never be sorted to the left but sorted to the right. This will ease our hearts as to the day and time we will see Jesus coming again, knowing that we will be with him for all eternity. We will have no need for gallons of water and gluing our eyes to the newscast, we will only have need to drop all earthly things and go with him.

Happy living on May 21st 2011.

All to God.