I would like to thank so many of you for your feedback last week concerning my conversation with Turquoise. It was refreshing to me as well to get a different viewpoint from someone that sees the world through a much younger set of eyes. As an administrative oversight, I must make a correction, and apologize in advance as I inverted her last name. It should be reflected as “Griffith-Sidibe.”
There are a variety of things in our lives that provide warning, direction, reasoning, and purpose. While some occur at a moderate pace, others require patient preparedness, and still others require us to move with haste. While some are inherently dependable, there are others we view with great skepticism (too good to be true). Sadly enough, I have fallen prey to more than I chose to admit, all based on what an expert convinced me to be true. One of which was a fish finder. I took a fishing trip with a great friend of mine, big "Sam", to Seward, Alaska. We heard well in advance, read brochures, and saw plenty of pictures of whale sightings and unbelievable deep water catches of halibut and other fish. We boarded the boat with great faith as the guide assured us, he knew exactly where he was going. Minutes, became hours, and the hours became which seemed like an eternity. The tour guide’s fish finder was on full alert, he guaranteed its accuracy, and continued to say with excitement, “they are over there;” “they are over here.” The further we sailed from shore the choppier the waters became. The weather suddenly changed, as the once sunny day, became cold and the rains began to pour upon me, wrapped in a black, heavy duty garbage bag. Now soaked and tossed back and forth, I began feeling seasick I was ready to return to shore as my enthusiasm had long since departed, but the captain, uninterested in my queasiness, was more interested in sailing to deeper waters and finding non-existent fish, like Captain Ahab and Moby dick. suddenly after more than four hours at sea someone finally got a bite. The boat was overflowing with excitement (except me). They rapidly reeled it in a four-inch fish that looked like I was feeling (green). Christ’s return is the same in that despite all the elements of predictability, interpretations of scripture, prophetic analysis, and others, no one, no one knows the day or the hour of his return. Scripture merely tells us to watch and pray.
Matthew 24:23-24
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. (Luke 18:1). Unlike fish finders the bible is clear about the return of Christ. There have been countless attempts to predict the exact moment of this prophesied occurrence for thousands of years, and well into the twenty-first century. But there are none, as expressed in Matthew 24:36; But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. While it does not pinpoint a day, as some would profess, scripture does speak directly to our preparedness.
