Lol again it seems as if people here think I think I am superior I am not. However I know what I know through grace and what you are seeing in the world now I knew about long before it was being spoken about in the news mediums... So all those here that know their Bibles know who is who? I wonder... well we shall see...
I think one of the mistakes many Christians make is believing that what God has placed strongly on their heart is what every other Christian should be putting the most emphasis on as well, and if they don't, they are somehow a lesser Christian or not even a Christian at all.
Having grown up in church and church culture, I see this all the time. People with strong beliefs who think that anyone who doesn't think the way they do doesn't know their Bible and can't possibly be a "real" Christian, or at least, can't possibly be on the same level as they are. And that may be true -- but only in the area where God has called them. But the people they deem as lesser might be much more advanced in the other areas where God has called them.
Why is it so easily forgotten that we are all parts of the body, and therefore God assigns us to different causes and functions?
One of the primary evils of this world that is often on my heart is sexual abuse. It all started when I was about 11 at Lutheran summer camp, and another girl in our cabin told us about being attacked by her babysitter as a young child. And the stories have never stopped. Almost everywhere I go, people (both men and women) at work, in church groups, online -- will start talking to me about the abuses they've been through and how it's affecting their lives, children, relationships, and marriages now.
I started to realize that God must have been orchestrating this for a reason, so I see it as one of my callings to listen to, pray for, and do my best to try to comfort those who have been or are going through sexual and domestic abuse.
Now I have to confess, that gets to be a pretty heavy topic sometimes, and therefore, I don't pay much attention at all to the things you're talking about -- end times and so forth. I've read the Bible several times on my own and have studied it since childhood, so I understand that the end times are coming, could come about any day, and are going to be worse than anything the earth has ever experienced.
But I have several other areas where I feel God is calling me and so I gravitate towards those instead. Does it make me a lesser Christian? Am I somehow sub-par in my faith because I'm not on the edge of my seat worrying about bloody horses and other "signs" happening around the globe? This is for God to decide, not others.
I could flip the table around and ask why more people aren't outraged and doing more to stop, prevent, and heal sexual trauma being induced upon children and adults everyday, but that's not my place. I'm more than happy to talk with others who have the same things on their hearts and learn from their experiences, but I would never cut down a brother or sister in the faith just because God has made them into a different working body part than I am.
Am I missing out, or am I nearly an infantile milk-drinking Christian because I don't pay more attention to "them" and "their" plots for world domination? I have not doubt these things are happening. But my whole life, I've been a small guppy in a very big pond full of much larger fish than me, so I guess I just try to let God take care of it and not worry too much.
If I've missed all the signs and am overtaken by whatever destruction and devastation is to come, I hope it can at least be said that maybe I was able to say something encouraging to someone or give them a comforting hug along the way.
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