Now today I want to talk on the subject of uncertainty as the statistics that I’ve been reading and the people I’ve been talking to point to a state of unrest in their lives and the lives of the people around them. I’ve received many calls from people who’ve asked me to pray or visit one of their friends or family who’ve gotten cancer. There’s a cancer outbreak in our nation today.
My mother passed away last year from melanoma. She was forty-eight years old and a woman of God, who left this earth in peace with those she had relationships.
What is peace? Peace is simply being in harmony with God and with people. It's freedom from disorder. The opposite of peace is being in opposition to God and to people. Do you have peace today?
Now some people are impossible to please. As we look back on our lives, we find that many times we could not please someone no matter how hard we tried because they simply were not at peace with themselves. Mother Theresa said, “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” We all have the same nature, the same coat of skin, the same blood, yet we put up so many fences because of our pride, and the results are unequivocal: war, racism, gossip, hatred.
With so much technology and worldwide communication, it's like we're sitting in a skybox waiting and watching as wicked world events unfold: nations warring against nations; evil powers in the world; global warming; tsunami waves wiping out entire villages. Toward what? Where is it all heading? Luke 21:9 said, “When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."
Why are we here? Why do we do the things that we do? Now I am certain that many reading this have beautiful stories of their children, their families, their lives. I am certain that there are tales of regret, broken friendships, loss… God can restore you today; God can heal you: all you have to do is let Him into your heart, to be your Lord and Savior.
Do you have a relationship with God? Many of us know Him but question His ways. The Bible says, “God’s ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts than our thoughts.” There is much mystery in God. We look through a very dark veil, the Bible says. Winston Churchill said it this way: “Without…uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.” And 1 Corinthians 8:2, 3 notes, “If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.”
If you watch the news, just about everyone has different views and they all think that they’re 100% correct. Some of us enjoy watching televangelists. Others don’t as they suspect that they do bad things and propose things that aren’t true. God bless them! I don’t care what they believe as long as they get people to Christ!
Now I'm a simple man. I'm not a theologian or even a good preacher. There are thousands of other preachers ten times better than I am. I don't possess any hidden powers, but there is power in the Word of God to save souls, to change lives.
The Bible is the most-sold book in human history. There are millions of other books that have been published about Christ; commentaries on all the angles forming views on Jesus’ life. John 21:25 says that “… there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
What miracles did he do? What did he come to fulfill? What message did he want us to hear? The greatest message of Christ was fulfilled in his silence: those seventy-two hours that Jesus lay in the grave and death could not hold him: Christ rose again.
Now I don’t understand the full reason God sent His Son (there are things that even the toppest theologian cannot claim to discern), but the Bible says that “God loved us so much that He sent His one and only Son into the world to die on the cross that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life” and all one has to do in response to this gift is receive him.
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