Luke 21: 34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap."
Jesus is talking about the end times. So much fear and so much judgment has been based on these prophecies and others in the Bible. Do we really need the threat of apocalypse to remain a faithful people?
Jesus also speaks of the response of the faithful in the time of trial. God will be there for His people; He is always there for us. How painful it would be to see what happens to the rest! I do not want to be alive for the Second Coming. I remember Ellis telling us that so many who focus on it have someone in mind they want to see punished. Not me! I do not want to be a witness to the closing of the trap.
Prayer: Lord, I pray that the pleasures and anxieties of this life never separate me from You. I pledge to be careful to renew and build my faith so that I am closer to Your will in my life. I praise You for Your continuing faithfulness to me and to all who let You near.
Amen
Same verse in 2015, and a very similar prayer too,
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