Colossians 1: 3-14   While we concentrate on the end times on earth our faith wavers and our fears grow.  It is our calling to firmly hold on to our eternal future; that is, our hope stored up in heaven.  This unlimited eternal store house is the source of our love for the saints (and for our enemies) and faith in the midst of life’s trials.  So much of our focus on the end times is fear driven thus giving a multitude of authors the opportunity for riches while the church starves from a lack of faith and hope.  While we speculate whether we will have no pain, medium pain, or much pain the world grows increasingly cold towards a church that knows little of faith and less of hope, while flocking to the soothsayers promoting spiritually coated “meism”.   The Bible teaches us to set our minds on our hope that is in heaven and cautions us to be warned about the end times.  It appears that we have gotten the message reversed.  We have set our minds on the end times and cautiously tip toe around the awesome truths of our eternal inheritance lest we offend someone. 

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