Where is the urgency?
It pours into your living room via the television and through your computer monitor every hour, every minute – bad news. Tornadoes rip through the Midwest, shredding towns and leaving thousands to pick up the pieces. The spiraling price of oil sends shockwaves through our economy, forcing people to choose between gasoline or food. An earthquake in China kills 30,000. A typhoon leaves 80,000 dead in Myanmar. Saber-rattling continues unabated throughout the Middle East. Famine decimates entire nations worldwide.
Marketers identify a phenomenon called “message fatigue,” where people are so accustomed to hearing thousands of advertising messages each day that they simply tune them out altogether. Are you and I in danger of developing a similar “disaster fatigue?”
If anything, these news reports should remind you and me that the Bible predicts that such tragedies would become more commonplace as the end times drew near.
We of Awana desire to serve the Lord by reaching out to children. The sense that we are living in the end times should give new urgency to our cause and spur us to action. We know that Jesus will come for His people, but we don’t know exactly when that will happen. Given those truths, every day of our lives should make an eternal difference in the life of a young person. How are you doing?
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matthew 24:36
“Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.” Matthew 24:42