When you see these things happen look up!!!

Luke 21:28

"28 But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near.”

God never said "when you see these things happening look around", or "get busy in politics" or "save your nation." He said "LOOK UP."

What does look up mean: "then look up and lift up your heads; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully and intently, for your salvation and deliverance:"

Born again believers are not to spend their last days on earth whimpering or anxiously worried about all that is happening in the world. Our hope is so great and so near that we hardly notice what all the wicked people are doing. Yes, of course, it grieves us at times and we have concern for those who are not yet saved but our daily walk is one of joy and peace in the midst of a wicked generation.

Philippians 2:14-16 "…14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world 16 as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain."

When Noah was at the end of his preaching after 120 years God told him to get into the ark.

Genesis 7:1 "1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family because I have found you righteous in this generation."

Proverbs 11:4
"Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death."

Noah did not wait around and get busy to save a nation from the wrath of God, he got onto the ark and waited for God to close the door.

Genesis 7:7,13
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood…

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Noah was considered righteous because of his faith in God. It was not his personal righteousness that was counted to him as being righteous, it was His faith in God. He walked uprightly because of his faith in God not to earn his own salvation. As it is our faith in Christ and Him living in us that qualifies us to be rescued from God's Wrath.

Hebrews 11:7 "7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. "

Notice this; Noah by faith condemned the world. He believed God therefore he had the mind of God. He trusted what God said and acted upon that trust.

Are we willing to lose what is familiar to us because we have trusted Christ? Are we willing to let go of our ideas and pleasures to obey Christ?

Something to think about isn't it?!!!