Focusing on the Darkness

There is this man that I know that has a real it all figured out what is going to happen in these end time. He truly believe that he can take the puzzle of God word and tell his fellow man who is the false prophet, and who will usurer in the anti-Christ. His goal, as he spells out his end time prophetic message, is to pin point the actual turn of events that will tell us when exactly that Lord is going to return. In the process of defending his conception, he comes up with leading men of God that agree with him. The problem is, that I can come up with just as many, that have a different conception, but I don‘t bother. When all his said and done, Jesus himself said that he had no idea when He would be returning, only God knows that. Yes, He did give us some guidelines that would make His return, but that is all that He could give us…

I don’t know if this desire to know the exact time of the Lord return is a man thing or not. All I know is that my uncle has become obsessed with an over whelming need to spread his message, in hopes of waking up his fellowman that our time is short. In the process, he has become filled with bitterness and resentment towards our president, ( every president in the last 20 years, not just this one) he is angry towards the church he feels has failed the world by not teaching the truth…( his churches conception of truth) That he has missed so much of God blessing in his life. He has with his obsessive attitude pushed his own children out of his life. Not intentionally, for he does love them. They simple can no longer deal with his dark attitude.

When you spend so much of your time focusing your attention on the problems of this world, then you miss the positive things that God is doing all around you ,because your thoughts are blinded by the darkness you see. A person, that spends all their time focusing their attention on their physical pain and misery, will become bitter and resentful towards their doctor, because he failed to give them a pill that will take their pain and misery away. In the processes their dark and negative thoughts rob them of the blessings that come from learning to rely on the Lord to guide them into a less painful existence.

Living with chronic pain myself, I have walked the dark path of bitterness and resentment towards my doctors, towards myself, and towards God, because of this painful thorn in my flesh. I gained victory over my pain, by changing the directions of my thoughts. When I came to accept just as Apostle Paul eventually did, that Hs grace is sufficient, His light began to shine brightly on my pain.

As I began to focus on the Lord as an active light in my life, He opened a door for me and I began to gain that peace of spirit and soul that goes beyond understanding. Under the stress of fighting my pain in the darkness, the pain was so out of control that my doctor could not help me. I so was caught in the dark world of my own misery that I could not see the light. Once I stopped fighting my own body and began to relax and focus my attention on the Lord, His light began to envelope my whole life. In the process I learned that there were certain things that I could do to help relive my own pain ,and in the process my pain as diminished to nothing more than a small achy reminder that my thorn is still there..

Living in the light has given me a whole new perspective of these end times. I see not a world of darkness filled with pain and hardships, all though I know it exist . Instead, I see a world of possibilities. I see God people rising up and becoming the light in the darkness. I see people walking not away from the church ( the true Church of God the Body of Christ) but embracing it and leaning to walk in the light as they begin to walk in a closure relationship with the Lord. I see people from all walks of life, from all around the world and every race and nationality , reaching out and touching the life of others , with the Light the flows through them as a river of life.

Walking in the light is a matter a choice. But as long as you are focusing all you thoughts on the darkness that is all you will every see!!!!