The world is in full disarray at the moment. There is continued trouble in the middle east and frankly even in the United States there is a lot of trouble and division where it seems as though the evil one is winning. Social aspects of world are winning out over Christian aspects and there is to the eye, the attempt to make Christians out to be the perpetrators of this discord.
“4But what is God’s reply to him? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’ 5So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.” — Romans 11:4-5 (ESV)
No matter how bad it seems to be getting or actually is in this world, we are still here. There are still warriors in this world for Christ. There are those of us still fighting. The evil one will not win. I have to remember that the ending has already been written and not matter the current situation, God will prevail. I have to know that where it seems as though all may be lost, there are still those who stand up and fight.
God promised the Israelite’s they would inherit the land, although He did not tell them when. They waited and fought and waited some more, until it was time. I know that I am in the same position here in the world today. I am waiting and fighting and waiting some more, until it is time. I may, as with the Israelite people, not get to experience the promised land in this world, but I will certainly be there for the already written ending to the suffering that is in this world. I will have my chance to be called on as one of the “seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal”. I will fight in the final battle. I am still here.
I am here thanks to the grace of God and not the works that I may have performed to this point. I am doing my part thanks to the grace of God. I am here fighting the fight before me each day. It may seem to me that I am having little to no impact, and that is only due to the sheer size of the war being waged. I am here doing my part in my little corner of the battlefield. When the time is right, God will call me from the corner and into the middle of it all. Until that time, I must continue to fight the battle before me and know that I am still here, ready when called.
What is your status in the war? Are you down and out waiting for someone or some kind of rescue? What if as a follower of Christ, you were to accept that you are still here fighting the battle before you waiting to be called up to the greater war?
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