The real war
The apostle Paul writes,
As I write this North Korea has nuclear missiles that experts say can reach the United States. This is not a new thing. While North Korea is late in coming to the nuclear table. Nuclear weapons have been around since world war two.
As someone who lived in England during the “Cold War” a nuclear threat means little. Back then it was said it took seven minutes for and intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the United Kingdom from the Soviet Union. Not much time to seek shelter. My father always joked “why seek shelter. It will do little good. If one is launched. Lets go and watch the blast.”
My father was essentially right. An all out nuclear war would leave little standing and put man on the brink of extinction, at least in this world.
Someone once said,
“Some people are waiting for a final apocalyptic war. When in reality the final war is not fought with guns, bombs and ICBM’s on earthly battlefields.
The real war is fought in and for the human heart. The out come of that battle will determine where a person will spend eternity.”
Martin Luther King jr. said,
The Psalmist states,
John’s gospel states,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:1-4,11-14
C. S. Lewis makes this point,
Do you believe in God?
Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God the Saviour of mankind?
Please think about it.
The apostle Paul writes,
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”
2 Corinthians 10:3,4
As I write this North Korea has nuclear missiles that experts say can reach the United States. This is not a new thing. While North Korea is late in coming to the nuclear table. Nuclear weapons have been around since world war two.
As someone who lived in England during the “Cold War” a nuclear threat means little. Back then it was said it took seven minutes for and intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the United Kingdom from the Soviet Union. Not much time to seek shelter. My father always joked “why seek shelter. It will do little good. If one is launched. Lets go and watch the blast.”
My father was essentially right. An all out nuclear war would leave little standing and put man on the brink of extinction, at least in this world.
Someone once said,
“Some people are waiting for a final apocalyptic war. When in reality the final war is not fought with guns, bombs and ICBM’s on earthly battlefields.
The real war is fought in and for the human heart. The out come of that battle will determine where a person will spend eternity.”
Martin Luther King jr. said,
“We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter.
God is our eternal fallout shelter.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
The question is, is God your eternal fallout shelter? If you were to die to day would you be spending eternity with God?The Psalmist states,
“The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
Psalm 14:1
The apostle Paul states,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved
it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18.
Do you believe in God? Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God. The Saviour of Mankind?John’s gospel states,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:1-4,11-14
C. S. Lewis makes this point,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance,
and if true, of infinite importance.
The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
C. S. Lewis.
Lewis speaking of Jesus also states,
“He died not for men,
but for each man.
If each man had been the only man made,
He would have done no less.”
C.S. Lewis.
It all comes down to where your faith lies. As Billy Graham the American evangelist put it,
“I can't prove it scientifically,
that there's a God,
but I believe.”
Billy Graham.
The writer of Hebrews states,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for
and
certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and
that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6.
Thus the choice is yours.Do you believe in God?
Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God the Saviour of mankind?
Please think about it.
