This has been a troubling week. I reviewed the notes I made back in December of 2020 following a time of seeking the Lord. I wrote,
American life will radically change, price increases will abound, lawlessness
will dramatically increase, government corruption will become more
evident, small businesses will collapse, hopeless will grip many nationwide.
In major cities like Minnesota, Chicago, Portland—to name a few—lawlessness runs rampant. Politicians are being exposed across the country for their corrupt behavior, and prices are increasing—it seems—almost daily. One glaring example is at the gas pump.
The loss of revenue in 2020, the mandated wage increases of 2021, coupled with the proposed tax increase (Limited Liability Companies-LLC, sole Proprietorships, and S-Corporations, umbrellas that many small businesses operate under) all have a direct impact on the future of small businesses in America.
As each of these situations increases—and they will—hopelessness will grow in this country. Please believe me when I say that I am not happy about any of this, I am saddened.
Now, more than ever, these events scream aloud the importance of a close personal relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. To know him, in such a time as this, is of paramount importance. Draw me close, should be the cry of the Christ-followers heart. Let your light in me shine, must be the mantle that each Christ-follower wears in this hour.
Perhaps I am writing this for anyone still playing the religious game of Christian, checking off the daily to-do lists as he or she goes about their busy life with little thought about the godhead.
Now, more than ever, a community of believers—those of like faith (belief, assurance that God is God, and will do what God says he will do) joining together to pray, grow and encourage each other along this excitingly scary path the world is on.
Now, more than ever, BE a Christ-follower, allowing the light of God in you to touch the lost and dying world around you. When someone asks you how you can be joyful, simply say, Jesus. When someone says, I don’t get you, simply say, Jesus. Some will laugh, some will cuss, but some will say, tell me more.
I would love nothing more than to be wrong about this doom and gloom stuff, but oh how I pray to be right about the life and light of the Christ-follower in today’s hopeless world.