Tag: future

It’s Not Small it’s Just Beginning 

“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”‭‭ Philippians‬ ‭1‬:‭6‬ ‭NASB

Birth Pangs

When Jesus spoke to His disciples about a future time before His second coming, He spoke of birth pangs.  The productive pain of something that is just beginning- or that has begun since the time of Jesus. A pain that leads to a positive result.  

We hold this pain in the form of a longing for the return of Jesus Christ, and this longing grows as we grow in Christ.  We can also relate to this pain in many varied ways.  In the birth of a child, the birth of aspirations, the birth of hope fulfilled.

“It’s not small it’s just beginning” is a call to remember that the desires of our hearts, which God knows more than we do, which leads to wisdom and understanding is beginning to grow or increase rapidly, as the state of the world also increases rapidly in conquest, division, economic changes, and demise.  Personal birth pangs and societal birth pangs are intensifying consecutively.  Small now, but just the beginning. 

Hope & A Future

For those who believe, Jesus offers us hope and a future. He offers us a time of maturation- a gestational period of development where our faith grows, and hope and love is made reality within us.  As Jesus covers us in His righteousness and protection, He fortifies and strengthens us, and prepares us for the pain of birth and sanctifies us in the process as we submit to His process. 

The birth pangs are real as they have been happening throughout the centuries.  And now we feel them too. They are collectively happening within and without. A course of reckoning of the state of things. He has always been preparing His church body- His bride, and the world for His coming. And He has indwelled within us the Holy Spirt, full of purpose and promise for His glory.  

1807 – 2027: The tune and the score.

“The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.” Proverbs‬ ‭27:12‬

19th Century

Seven delicate years in, and the 19th century was developing proudly.  Puffed up- with a head crowned heavily with death and injustice in its formative years, it knew nothing of true freedom.  Still fixed to stubbornness but the years grew wise in knowledge of what progress looks like.  Injustice had a name, inequality grew shameful. A higher purpose was the calling. Visions of unity echoed out the mouths of babes. 

The future had steam; the years had the momentum of industry.  It pushed us forward come hell or high water.  

20th Century

The 20th century had undercurrents of hope and change not fully realized but inevitable.  We moved with the civil rights movement.  It made us better, humanity became stronger.  

21st Century

Information takes its place, the good and the destructive.  Widespread and primed for manipulation, the 21st century has information technology fast and furious.  Now, as we methodically advance through time, shaking in our knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs- what is our melody? Are we in tune?

The future has a sound.  I hear it.  It is intelligent beyond words.  Beyond our imagination but of our imagination.  The music is captivating. The drums are ominous, but the strings are soothing.  The horns, harmonious.  And the score is arranged for us to abstract the notes of who we are, and where we’re going.