Are we living in the Past,
the Presence or the Future?
Part 3: Living in the
Future.
Today
in 2012, we are living in an uncertain world and where the certainties of the
past are no longer certain. Throughout
the world we see that we are affected in various ways because we live in a time of uncertainty.
Throughout
the history of humanity there have been times of social, economic and political
uncertainty, we have seen the decline of old nations, old methods of economic
structure and old political systems and their replacement by new nations, new
methods of economic structure and new political systems. Many have tried and failed to hold on to the
old in the face of the challenges of the new, then again many have embraced the
new and dismissed and destroyed the old. Old enemies have become friends, and
old friends have become enemies!
We
are seeing the decline of Europe and the continuing rise of the so called BRIC
nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China, if anything the replacement of the
currencies of some countries in Europe by the single currency or Euro has
hastened this decline, instead of making Europe a economic and political
superpower, the Europe of 2012 onwards is becoming an ever declining shadow of
it’s former glory.
In
at attempt to halt this decline we’ve invented new economic structures and new
political systems which are really modified old economic structures and
political systems, or we have embraced the old ways of doing things because
they give us some form of structure in a time when we’re no longer aware of
what structure should be!
When
we walk down our high streets we see boarded up shops with the for sale or to
let signs, we’ve all chosen in the past to forsake our high streets in favour
of the out of town shopping centres or shopping online with companies like Amazon,
because of the word convenience, the religion/s of our fore fathers have been
replaced with the new religion/s such as consumerism, our theology and our
ethics are no longer guided by religious texts such as the Bible but by the
mantras of human rights and equality.
We
have turned our backs on the old way of doing things because we have been told
there is a better way and a simpler way, and when we’ve travelled this new
road. We have found to our cost, that we have been misled. There are those who would wish to throw the
Church and the Christian Faith into the dustbin of history, and see the
Christian Faith and Religion in general as an anathema to their new religion of
tolerance and equality.
It
seems that all hope is gone, and the Church of Jesus Christ Kingdom of God
The Old Testament Prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah
54:17 NIVUK. “No
weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that
accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is
their vindication from me, declares the LORD.”
There is hope, there is certainty, we the Church
are God’s Messengers of Hope, Deliverance, Salvation , we are God’s Messengers
of Transformation, yes we face challenges and difficulties but he is within us
is by far greater than he is within the world see 1 John 4:4-6 read
here.
I know that despite all the difficulties, the
opposition that we face as The Church,
we like our brothers and sisters from past generations will stand, God has raised the heroes of
faith, both men and women, in the past the people like John Wesley, William
& Catherine Booth, Smith Wigglesworth and others some unknown and others
known, that despite what politicians,
scientists etc say about us and tell us,
that The Lord is coming back for a victorious army not a defeated army,
that are waiting on the beaches for a Heavenly Rescue Mission. God will raise
us up to take our place as the Church Militant alongside the Church Triumphant
We the Church need to take our stand, hold our
ground and advance, one famous military tactician once said, that the best form
of defence is attack, so let us take back the territory that we and others in
the past have lost to the enemy, let us as we win the lost for the Lord, and
are lead and equipped by those God has placed in the forefront,( see Ephesians
4:11-13 read
here) advance to recapture lost terriority
Rise up o Church; let us advance for the sake of our Lord,
Saviour & Redeemer Jesus Christ and His past, present and future Kingdom.
Yours in His Grace
Blair Humphreys
Southport.Merseyside.England
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