Have you ever been in the middle of watching one of your favorite television shows, and it’s interrupted by a newscaster with “Breaking News” reporting with urgency, “we interrupt this broadcast” or “we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking news". It could be related to an election, or a tornado warning, but whatever it is, it’s urgent. Our show is interrupted suddenly, to deliver a shocking announcement.
It takes some devastating news to interrupt any type of program.
It is the disruption of something normal that has resulted from something abnormal, such as a catastrophic event or something that will cause or have caused a negative effect on us or our way of life.
It is the interruption of our normal, which cause negative reactions to our normal, that births our new normal, like a pandemic. It alters our life or our lifestyle.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2 NIV)
In our Christian walk, anytime we get off-course, we will receive a warning. God will send us a warning that we are going in the wrong direction. It is easy to be inundated by the world’s views and values. We have to watch what we hear and what we see. If those things are not drawing us to Christ, then they are driving us away from Him.
In today’s technology, you have cars that can drive themselves. Some cars have technology that will alert you if you go outside of your lane or if you are driving too closely to another vehicle. When one of those events occurs, you will hear a sound that goes, “beep, beep, beep.”
Now, imagine our lives becoming totally out-of-control. We start leaving the assigned boundaries or becoming too close upon what isn’t approved by God. God will give us some type of warning. Just like on TV, He will send us an interruption of our lives broadcast.
Jesus is The Newscaster, and he has interrupted your life with this announcement.
He says, “I have interrupted your normally scheduled life to provide you with this warning. I have some very important news to share with you. You are living in a very corrupt and deceived world. It looks like you are now, going along to get alone. Somehow you have started to enjoy what this world has to offer you and your eyes are no longer set on the prize, and that is ME. You have started to believe the hype of what mankind is offering you and you are no longer obeying and following The Rule Book, the Bible. You see I have proved to you that I love you. I told you that I would never leave you nor forsake you. I have told you that I will never break a promise to you and that I am committed to you. But now, you think that man and the enemy have made you a better offer.”
JESUS ANNOUNCES:
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR TV SET! This is an Emergency Broadcast! You are not experiencing Technical Difficulties! This is just in!
To stray from me will bring you disaster with a future forecast of doom and gloom, with dark days and stormy nights. But to follow me will provide a forecast of rain and sunshine, followed by rainbows and showers of blessings.
Jesus, will not make you do anything that you don’t want to do. You must decide for yourself.
Jesus is, the Newscaster, revealing the current events, and Forecasting the future Coming events
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What’s your decision? Dark and Stormy or Rain and Sunshine?