Christ's Return

First, I must apologize for the constant blogging. I do not expect you to keep up. I just keep having thoughts that I feel I must post on.

Rachel and I had a conversation about a speaker who made a riveting comment. I don't remember who the speaker was and Rachel is on the phone right now. I don't want to bother her and ask. But, she told me about how that statement impacted her. The statement paraphrased was something like- Every time I go down the streets of Fort Wayne and see the many pornographic businesses I cry and weep in prayer. How often is your heart broken for the things that breaks God's heart. Is it daily? I know I am not doing the comment justice. I really can't recall exactly how he phrased it. But, it will do for my comment. Rachel mentioned that she was upset that those kind of things, although they bothered her, never made her broken daily. It also made me desire to be broken for this lost world daily as well. I don't just want to cry in a heated prayer meeting. I want to be sensitive to God's heart daily. Fort Wayne is covered in pornographic businesses. You go down one street and you can see three industries showing no shame. They boldly advertise exotic dancers and entice any weak soul to drown themselves in worldly pleasures. This often bothers me. But, I had another encounter with the world that had me weeping like the man suggested. I was switching my radio channel to find a song I liked. I came across a beat that sounded new and somewhat rhythmic. I decided to pause to hear some of the lyrics. I won't go into detail for any young readers. Basically, the title of the song was, "I Kissed a Girl." Not anything too shocking in the title. But, what makes it shocking is the singer was a female. I listened to the song not because I approved of the content. I was just curious how far along the secular song business has gotten. I began to weep. All of a sudden I saw pictures of people jamming to this song completely unaware of how offensive it was to God. Then I just had a strong sense that the Lord's return is much closer than we know. I know we hear those predictions a lot. It is easy for apathetic Christians to think such claims only come from fanatics. I wish I could place in their soul the urgency I had as I was driving my car. The nerve of this generation to put out such a blatantly vulgar song had me praying urgently. Any homosexuals who are reading this could easily be offended. They have no idea how merciful I am to this group. I love them with a deep compassion and actually detest how the religious right has treated them. I don't like how our churches ostracize them and paint them as beyond God's grace. Any sin is wrong. Hating your brother is just as harmful. But, even with my deep compassion this song had me rehearsing this verse.

2 Tim 3:1-5
3:1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God- 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.