maybe it's not the problem. maybe it's the solution

I want to shout "Wake up! "

I want you to look at me. 

I want the blindness to come to an end.

I want those with eyes to see. 

How many of you read your scriptures EVERY day.....Or have taught your children to,  and yet wouldn't recognize the literal manifestation of those words? 

I say to Jacob sometimes: "You can't save the world until you learn to follow directions."

It's a great metaphor. Yes.  It is.  But for Jacob,  it's literal.

So we read these words about the "end of times", but would we know them if we were in the middle of them? 

Meanwhile, here's some food for thought:

A Christian poetess, Annie Johnson Flint, wrote:

"It is not for a sign we are watching

 For wonders above and below,

The pouring of vials of judgment,
The sounding of trumpets of woe;
It is not for a Day we are looking,
Not even the time yet to be
When the earth shall be filled with God's glory
As the waters cover the sea;
It is not for a King we are longing
To make the world-kingdoms His own;
It is not for a Judge who shall summon
The nations of earth to His throne.

Not for these, though we know they are coming;
For they are but adjuncts of Him,
Before whom all glory is clouded,
Besides whom all splendor grows dim.
We wait for the Lord, our Beloved,
Our Comforter, Master and Friend,
The substance of all that we hope for,
Beginning of faith, and its end;
We watch for our Savior and Bridegroom,
Who loved us and made us His own;
For Him we are looking and longing:
For Jesus, and Jesus alone."*

The great Scottish minister, Horatio Bonar, on one occasion sat with a number of fellow ministers. He said to them, "Do you really expect Jesus Christ to come today?" One by one he went around the circle and put that question to each. And one by one they shook their heads and said, "No, not today." Then without comment he wrote on a piece of paper these words and passed it around:

"Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect"