“Then the Lord replied: ‘Write down the revelation and make it
plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and not
delay’...” Habakkuk 2:1-3
By Shirley Wiggins
Use them anyway. What you see today may be for tomorrow’s world. See it, say it, share it: write it, record it.
Amy Carmichael envisioned, by God’s Holy Spirit, a world where blind people were falling off a cliff into a bottomless ravine to their deaths with no warning.¹
Unseeing mothers with babies in their arms and little children clinging to their skirts, one by one perishing as they blindly stumbled off cliffs with too few people guarding the wide gaps.
All this needless perishing of people while those who could see were busy in their little groups – making daisy chains.
Daisy Chains!
Amy tells how some of the sighted among them in their little groups would occasionally become so upset at the piercing screams of these poor unseeing people as they fell, that they would leap to their feet desperate to warn them of the danger.
Young and old, one by one they would stand up to try to cry out a warning, but each time they stood, one of their group would place a restraining hand on their arm, urging them to sit back down offering one excuse after another for not intervening.
She particularly describes one little boy who having stumbled (along with his mother?) over the edge grabbed desperately at a tuft of grass only to have it tear from the ground by its roots while he screamed and fell, still clutching tightly to the grassy clump.
What he held onto for dear life could not save him.
When we see the world crumbling around us, we may cry and sometimes despair because we can clearly see that many people today are clinging to things that cannot save them.
When we see danger approaching the doorway of our own homes, we begin to pray as best we know how. We may desperately wish we knew how to pray more effectively.
Better had we been prepared for the day of calamity when it struck if we had taken advantage of the days of opportunity.
Is there the sound of the Shepherd weeping over the sins of this world, as Jesus wept over the City of Jerusalem?
Jerusalem, who had failed to recognize her days of opportunity for deliverance. (Luke 19:41-44.)
Do we weep over the sins of our world, our place of impact?
Are we standing in the gap to pray for those who are seemingly unaware of the danger they and their entire families may be living in today?
Or, is our place left unattended while we are distracted by the cares of the world? Are we busy making pretty, but useless daisy chains in these days of opportunity?
The Lord gives eyes to see and ears to hear His divine truth, with mouths to warn, and tongues to tell about the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6).
When once we know the Truth, we have the responsibility to share the truth. (2 Corinthians 5:17-21.)
The Lord Jesus Christ
fully equips His people to be His messengers in this world. Let us use all that He has entrusted to
us. Let us use the gifts His Holy Spirit
has distributed to each one in the service of the world that God loves. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11; John 3:16-21).
God loves all the people living in the world,
and those living in the Land of the Un’s:
unaware, untold, unguarded, unconverted, uncontrolled, unredeemed,
unrepentant, untaught, unheard, unsanctified, unsafe, and unsaved…
“But the day of the Lord will come like a
thief. The heavens will disappear with a
roar; the elements will be destroyed by
fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this
way, what kind of people ought you to be?
You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of
God and speed its coming. That day will
bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt
in the heat. But in keeping with His
promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where
righteousness dwells.
So
then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to
be found spotless, blameless and at peace with Him. Bear in mind that the Lord’s patience means
salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that
God gave him. He writes the same way in
all His letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard
to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other
Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Therefore
dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may
not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure
position.
But
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever! Amen.” --------------------------2 Peter 3:9-18.
“Look,
I am coming soon! My reward is with Me,
and I will give to each person according to what they have done.” Revelation 22:12.
