Was Last Christmas the Final Christmas? :: By Jim Towers

Yes, I think so.

Finally, after planning to go Christmas caroling in downtown Naples, Florida, on Christmas day (in the evening), Caroline, Jill and I found the Theatrical Playhouse to be a good gathering place to set up shop. Testing the waters, I set out alone as I am a trained vocalist, unafraid of audiences – but after a couple of test runs, it became evident that people just weren’t interested in songs about the birth of Christ. They all came out to eat at the fancy restaurants and party in the fancy bistros surrounding us.

I began to think that most of the crowd had never heard the songs I was singing. I even asked others to join in with me but to no avail, even though I had printed several copies of the old favorites in case some wouldn’t know the words. Surely the songs would be familiar to them, especially to the mature people.

But I got Crickets, nada, nothing, zilch. Even though I tried with all I had, the zombie-like crowds were somber and had only come out to have Christmas dinner in the elegant bars and restaurants that encircled the huge patio lined with benches, Christmas trees, and ornaments. Although the setting was beautiful – the people milled around like they were lost and searching for something. Indeed – that something was and is Jesus Christ. I had never seen such apathy and lostness.

I spite of what Christians say is a “revival,” I found the scene echoing the Bible verse, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:26-27). Christians have always reacted when the least little sign of revival takes place, but I can assure you that the excitement fizzles out after a short while when no one is eager to keep the fires of revival gong.

Why put your life on the line like Charlie Kirk and speak out? Where are our convictions? Christians seem to forget that they have a job to do – besides giving money to let others do it for them. They may be saved but just by the seat of their pants “as if by fire.”

These are perilous times we’re living in folks, and we are all going to need shelter from the storms that are going to beset us. Football, basketball, baseball are all fine and good, but these manmade distractions have replaced God in the life of many Christians. I don’t know about you, but the exclamation below that David made is a proclamation that all Bible-believing Christians should be able to make.

“Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long – your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path” (Psalm 119:97-104).

Book review:

Knowing I was a “reader” of non-fiction books that matter, a friend gifted me with a little book, Heaven is for Real, that was written over twenty years ago by Pastor John Burpo along with a ghost writer. The story revolves around his three-and-a-half-year-old son who visited heaven and lived to tell about it. The boy was dying of a ruptured appendix of all things. Although he didn’t come right out and say all that he experienced, his father says that the child made comments that could only be attributable to his son really having experienced this glorious adventure. The father says he never prompted his son to say these things and didn’t put words in his mouth.

I remember reading this story years ago but had forgotten most of it, what with living my own incredible life taking precedence and having to grapple with my own issues as we are all apt to do. As I read on, I was looking for prompts to occur – but could find none. I read the little book from cover to cover and could find no fault in it since I too had experienced many miraculous things in my life and knew for a certainty that God can do what He wants, when he wants, and how He wants to do it – incredible as it sounds.

Over twenty years has passed, and I wondered where this boy was and what he was doing now that he is a young man. Doing a little research, I found the now twenty-two-year-old living the Christian life like the rest of us Christians – and aspiring to be an electrician (not that there is anything wrong with that) – but give me a break! Yet he seems to think it is no big deal while I beg to differ. People everywhere need to be encouraged lest they despair from all the tragedy going on in the world these days.

People everywhere need to know that God is real and that His ways never change except in extreme cases such as the Great Flood or the immolation of Sodom and Gomorrah, the likes of which we are fast becoming.

While I hate to be the one who says, “I told you so,” I don’t relish the mandate I’ve been given to “strengthen the brethren.” Yet I can’t help but have sympathy for the multitudes of people who are dying without hope. Wake up people; please wake up! The days of apathy and sloth will soon come to an end, and where will you stand? God is already showing that His longsuffering days are about to end. Don’t you see it?

YBIC

Jim Towers

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