My husband expressed this morning that it feels like we are living in an insane asylum. His comment brought to my mind more about this topic.
It feels as though we have been placed in a room with only insane people. When we are let out of the room to move to the main area where the asylum orderlies and wardens are, they too are insane.
All problems are dealt with through force, intimidation and manipulation. Anyone who does not comply to the mandates of the wardens or orderlies is emotionally bludgeoned until they can no longer endure the attacks, finally giving in to extinguish the pain.
Becoming lethargic and completely indifferent to the environment is the only way to survive this carnage to the human soul.
If there are difficulties and problems in the room filled with insanity there is no way to resolve them. No one can agree on any solution nor can they even logically discuss the details and nuances of a proposal for a solution.
When everyone in the room sees an attempt to fix a problem as a personal attack there is nothing that can be done. Not only does the problem grow worse it morphs into something so big that it is nearly impossible to correct or even improve to the slightest degree.
As we see the insanity of the nation growing exponentially it is clear what is happening when we know God's Word. 2 Timothy 3 and 4 say everything we need to know about what is happening and what to do about it.
2 Timothy 3: 1-5 (Difficult means "ragingly insane)
Difficult Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days ragingly insane times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
Pretenders in the church are a larger number than authentically born-again believers.
2 Timothy 4:1-8
"1 I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.
3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires,
4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
5 But as for you, use self-restraint in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
8 in the future there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing."
Every authentic believer can say what Paul says here in 2 Timothy 4, we are being poured out like a drink offering. We carry on in spite of the world around us, remaining untainted by the world while awaiting our departure from this world. Our loneliness and persecution by others is intense but our hope and joy is far greater.
When we know what God said is happening to us and the world we have no worries or fear because we know Christ keeps us from the evil one in the midst of the fire.
I am convinced we are going home soon. When we go we will have more loving and kind friends than we could imagine at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb when we all focus our gaze on Jesus Christ, together in oneness of heart. We can't know what that will feel like now but I can imagine the intense joy at going to be with our real family, the family of Christ. Hallelujah!!!!
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