REM

REM has been running through my mind the last couple of days...."It's the end of the world as we know it....and I feel fine!" I LOVED that song when it came out...and once it's in my head, it takes a while before I can move on to something else. But I've been thinking about it especially as we near this anniversary of Noah's ark. Here we are, thousands of years later, and it's predicted that the world will end today. It's 9:55 pm CST, and I'm still here. I'm thinking I'm going to make it through the last two hours and five minutes.

The Mayan calendar runs out in 2012. The world was supposed to end with Y2K. And yet, we're still here. The rapture was supposed to have occurred 11 years ago...and many times prior to that. Did God just miss me....and other Christians....or other believers in God?

Before I get too upset with God, though, I remember the words of Jesus - that no one knows the day or the hour when the Lord will return. Why are we trying to guess. Why put in all this research, only to in fact discover that what Jesus says is true? We can't know the day or the hour - but we should live as though the end is near all the time.

So REM is right. If we live as though today were the end of the world, how would we feel? Would we have been Jesus' hands and feet? Would we have served joyfully? Would we have told others about the amazing love God has for us? If today were the end of the world as I know it, would I feel fine? I sure hope so, since I can't predict the day or the hour; I need to always be ready. And, if I am, then I'll feel fine!