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A look at what is coming and how we can prepare for it.
Humor
There are two muffins baking in the oven.
One muffin says to the other, “Phew, is it getting hot in here or is it just me?”
The other muffin says, “AAAAHHH!!
A TALKING MUFFIN!”
Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?
Because it’s pointless.
If athletes get athlete’s foot, what do elves get?
Mistle-toes.
Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Because if they flew over a bay, they would be bagels.
Why do bees have sticky hair?
Because they use honeycombs.
Two windmills are standing on a wind farm.
One asks, ‘What’s your favorite kind of music?’
The other replies, ‘I’m a big metal fan.’
What do you get from a pampered cow?
Spoiled milk.
Its good to laugh.
sometimes that’s all you can do!
The spring of 2020 changed the world.
now as we enter 2022 and we are told things are getting worse again.
Our provincial leaders have tried their best.
but its obvious they are coming up short.
As of December 28:
89.2% of Albertans over 12 have had their first dose
85.2% are fully vaxed
Yet we still have to do all the same things we did before the vaccnine existed.
however the virus isn’t the biggest threat to our society.
Canadian expert's research finds lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits
This article is almost a year old, and lockdowns are still going on.
Sure as a society we can survive it, but what about 3rd world countries.
Food insecurity 82-132 million
severe poverty 70 million
maternal-under 5 mortality from interupted healthcare 1.7 million
infectious disease deaths from interupted services -Millions
school closures in 3rd world countries will set back communities a generation
interupted vax campaings for millions of children
domestic abuse
Substance abuse
Yes we can see the results here, but it far worse in many countries
In Canada its estimated 200k small business closed and will not reopen.
in June of 2021 56K business closed permnently
22% of Alberta business are in danger of closing.
Outreach magzine reports 1 in 5 churches closed and will not reopen
Its estmated that 9000 churches in Canada will close before things return to a new normal
According to Barna.
29% of pastors were seriously considering a career change in the last year.
and 2/3rds of Christians have stopped attending church either in person or online without plans to reattend.
Even if Covid just disappeared today.
There is a very long rebuilding process.
We can all say we’ve experienced a crisis in your life?
Being mistreated by someone?
You got a raw deal?
Stuck in the “life’s not fair” narrative?
Life just keeps knocking you down?
Or fill in the blank________!
I have walked through hardships and many tough circumstances.
I completely understand that walking through any of these is not fun, but there is a nugget that most of us never pick up through these difficult times.
You will quickly discover how real your relationship with Jesus Christ is in the midst of these tough places.
Your response to any of the trials that life throws at you will reveal what’s really inside of you and it will reveal the depth of your relationship with Jesus!
If you don’t think you need church anymore, it tells me a bunch about where your relationship with Jesus is
When we step into one of these narratives we have choices;
we can trust our circumstance to the Lord or deal with them in our own strength and probably crash and burn.
We all have dreams but often the reality of our life doesn’t line up with the picture we’ve painted in our minds, right?
Let’s take a deeper dive by stepping into the story of Joseph, the Old Testament guy.
Let’s pick up his story in Genesis 37.
Joseph was seventeen years old, he was a shepherd and he was the favorite son of Jacob.
Remember the coat of many colors that Jacob made for him?
Joseph is living the dream.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Josepeh
In the midst of “living the dream” something was brewing behind the scenes.
A hatred for Joseph began to take hold in his brothers fueled by this favoritism.
Joseph being overconfident and clueless about this growing hatred, steps right onto a land mine by rubbing this dream about his future supremacy and his brothers’ submission to him.
How do you think that went over?
Well, it intensified their hatred towards him and they wanted to kill him.
This stunt got Joseph a one way trip to a death pit.
One of his brothers manged to rescue him by convincing the others to sell him to a caravan heading to Egypt instead of killing him, so off to Egypt Joseph went.
The Lord was with Joseph!
Hmmm…Joseph was no longer “living the dream” and probably was thinking that life sucked right about now, but the Lord was with Joseph.
Going to pick up the pace of the story a bit.
In a moment, Joseph’s life was changed from being the beloved son
to a slave in the unknown land of Egypt.
Upon his arrival his sightseeing was cut short because he was sold to Pharaoh’s captain Potiphar to be a servant in his house, but the Lord was with Joseph.
Picking the story back up in Genesis 39, things were starting to shape up for Joseph.
Potiphar entrusted him with charge of all of his house affairs due to his work ethic.
Pretty cool, huh?
Not really, because it was short lived.
Due to the false accusation of Potiphar’s wife to her husband, because Joseph would not sleep with her, Joseph was cast into prison.
Joseph paid the price for impeccable integrity, but the Lord was with Joseph.
At this point you might argue, why didn’t God rescue him from his troubles?
Great question, but let’s keep going with the story.
Joseph found favor with the guards in prison and things were going well for being in prison.
Later, because of his divine ability to interpret dreams, he thought he was going to get out by helping the chief cup-bearer (who was also in prison)…that falls through — but The Lord was with Joseph.
Two years later, the cup-bearer (who was now out of prison) remembers Joseph’s divine ability to interpret dreams because Pharaoh was deeply troubled by a dream he had and no one could figure it out.
Joseph gets a get-out-of-jail-free card and finds himself standing before Pharaoh, the most powerful man on the planet at the time to see if he could give it a go.
Because the Lord was with Joseph, he interprets the dream to a future time of abundance that would be followed by a time of great famine.
Pharaoh rewarded Joseph with overseeing the lands of Egypt and in these prosperous times he stored up the abundant harvest in preparation for tough times ahead.
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