Much of the modern church environment is paralyzed by the ungodly
spirit of "FEAR" and it shows in the religionist alarmists, the defeatists
verbalization they use to describe the world happenings and the impending doom
they predict is about to be come upon
people.
It is preached over church pulpits,
talked about in church pews and lobbies, religious media output is articulating
it. You see it in their facial expressions, in their judgmental and condemning
quivering voices as they slam the bible on their pulpits. It dominates the
Facebook and blog rants of the of the religious fear-mongers.
To these
fear-mongering mongers everything is now a threat...Stephen Harper, Justin
Trudeau, Barack Obama, illegal immigrants, Arabs, Gays, the Government and
Muslims and even Grace living
believers.
According to the chicken-little
fear-monger's mongering fear tactics “The Sky Is Falling In”. The gloom and doom
say-ers have more faith in Islamic power to bring destruction and chaos and give
rise to “the antichrist” than in God’s power of love and
grace.
Parroting the religionized media
outlets, the religious polarized talk show hosts and re-posting on Facebook the
latest terrible acts making the news reports. People perpetuate the religionists
Christian narrative of gloom and doom and the impending wrath of God in
destructive destruction and they make it very clear that eternal hell awaits the
vast majority of the people of the world.
One religionist's comment made
on a comment made to a Facebook post says; "Seeing you are supporting what the
ISIS is doing because Christians did it as well , the quicker your turn comes
the better." Meaning that the faster the person faces the ISIS wrath, the
better.
Though the religionists loudly, repeatedly, and confidently
proclaim Christ as Lord, in reality they no longer trust that God has any real
power, any true control, and inherent god-ness. They seem to have rendered God
to a insignificant Deity, who doesn’t seem to have as much power to shower good
on people as the devil has to shower evil upon mankind. Then again, they believe
that God is the one showering wrath and evil!
Dig beneath the pious “I
can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” shouted bible verse, and
the shouting that “the antichrist is about to appear” bullhorn warnings, and you
can see that they are as naked as a jailbird spiritually, they have more trust
in evil overtaking people than God's goodness overtaking
them.
All that pious, warfare spiritual talk
is a gumming tiger dressed-up as religion. The truth is, Fear is religion's
false God and according to their spouting, one they worship with complete and
undying devotion.
The symptoms of Fear Idolatry are pretty easy to spot.
When you’re not sure that God is there or that He’ll really come through, you
start to spend most of your time defending Him when He is not around. You become
a self-appointed mouth-piece for Truth, whose mission is to do the holy work of
a "doctrinal cop" policing the world, (just in case God can’t or won’t make
things right). You turn all of your attention to the things in other people
that you’re certain really pisses God off, and you make it your sacred business
to modify their behavior in the name of Jesus and if they do not modify their
behavior you condemn them to eternal punishment in hell.
Such religious
rhetoric indicates they know not how big and powerful our loving Father God
is.
If God is who He
says He is; if He is a God worth worshiping at all, then I have no right to be
taking things into my own hands or be lost in hopelessness. Pessimism is not an
option. Giving-in to the gloom and doomers simply will not do. Why? Because God
is:
Greater than sin...
Greater than the economy...
Greater
than the governments...
Greater than the Obama's of the
world...
Greater than religious fear-mongering...
Greater than
natural disasters...
Greater than stock market crashes...
Greater
than job losses and downturns...
Greater than the judgmental and
condemning people on Facebook...
Greater than the mess that you and I
create that we find ourselves in...
God’s GRACE and LOVE is GREATER than
it ALL!
So, do not despair or worry when they tell you that the sky is
falling and the anti-Christ is about to appear, either they don't know or need
to be reminded…Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is
hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have
you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the
earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths
grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the
LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will
run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah
40:27-31)
People, the sky is not falling in, because our loving Father
God is holding up the sky.
The gloomers and doomers...as in the
past...will slink away with their tail between their legs and their heads hung
in shame for such a shallow view of our ALL POWERFUL GOD and the POWER of HIS
NEVER FAILING COMPASSION, LOVE AND
GRACE!
Things are going to work out, His plan
for humanity will prevail despite the gloom and doom of the
fear-mongers.
In the words of God Himself..."BE NOT AFRAID." He has all
the bases covered
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