Nice in our neck of the woods, mild temperatures, again, with little wind.  No air conditioning, just open windows and doors to let the fresh air in.  Just a nice Fall day.

I was in the parking lot of Water’s Edge this morning when I heard a flock of geese honking overhead – but they were heading north, I thought maybe they got their wires crossed. 

I headed into the building when I hear one of the geese calling, what sounded to me to be ‘left;’ then a softer honk.  It was repeated a few times, I looked up and sure enough the flock was turning left – and heading down to the river.

Okay, think what you like, I know what I heard. (-:

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Genesis 18:20-24  KJV  “ And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

²² And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

²³ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

²⁴ Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?”

VERSE 32  “And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

I have heard, more than once, that if God doesn’t do something with certain cities that seem to revel in their sin and promoting it by laws and actions.

However, even the worse of these cities cannot compare to Sodom and Gomorrah.  We still have many Christians in those communities and they could be very well what is keeping those cities from destruction by God.

All the recent talk about God destroying earth and nations on a particular day, is the same foolishness that others have done throughout hundreds of years.

We can know that we are close to God sending Jesus back to claim His own, but we don’t know the date He has chosen to do that.

AND He told us that.

Acts 1:6-8  KJV  “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

He told us not to focus on when He would be coming back, but to tell others about Him; all over the world. 

Abraham begged for the safety of those that were righteous in those cities, but as it turned out there weren’t even ten righteous people in those communities.

Is God going to use the same criteria for the world?  That really isn’t important to us.

What is important is that there are still people in this world and in our nation that need God.  People that need to be told of His forgiveness through His Son.

Yes, they should be aware that they will not always be given the opportunity to delay their decision.  So, focusing on end times is probably beneficial, I really don’t know, but the thing we have to consider is that Jesus hasn’t come back for the past almost 2000 years.

Everyone that focused on the last days during that time died, they had their own last day on this earth and then they faced God Himself.

As long as there is one day left before Jesus comes to call us home, we need to continue sharing His love to the world.

I have seen too many times where a person was alive one moment, only to be killed by an accident or an act of deliberate violence the next; literally without warning.

It should make us aware that whatever our age, whatever our physical condition may be, we may find ourselves facing God after our death, at any time; without warning. 

As well as those people we care about.

That is why it is so important to live each day as if it might be the last day of our life.  To focus on living for Him and doing what He has told us to do.

Maybe we should be using Abraham’s example and pray to God that we need one more day to pray and bring that loved one into the fold of Christ, asking Him to send the Holy Spirit to convince that person to understand and accept Jesus as their Savior. 

We don’t want to skip a day, thinking there may be more in the future.

Today, may be the very day He does come for us, in one way or another.

Later, Art (-: