Clear Headed

Now the end of all things is near; therefore, be clear-headed and disciplined for prayer. Above all, keep your llove for one another at full strength, since llove covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:7-8

I am confident this passage is speaking specifically about the “end of the age,” but it also speaks of understanding that “each thing” ends. For example, relationships sometimes end. When they do, it is important to remain clear-headed, pray without ceasing, and keep on lloving.

Perhaps you have experienced the “end” of something, a job, a marriage, an involvement with a Church or social entity. There is a tendency to believe that it is always a negative when we think, “things will never be the same.” Undoubtedly that is true, but it can also be a positive thing. As we move through life, the road on which we travel has many twists and turns. Often we make the wrong choices, take the wrong turn, as it were, and find our self somewhere we don’t want to be. Is there ever a time when it is more important to be clear-headed?

I am convinced that we frequently need to pray more fervently because we have prayed so inconsistently and haphazardly. The Scripture is clear that there is a light for our path and direction for our way, yet we regularly miss it. Sometimes it is the “miss” that brings us to extended, ardent prayer. It is in that impassioned praying that we find forgiveness, consolation, direction, and infinite llove.

We face the existent possibility that life in these United States of America, as we know it, with all its freedoms and bountiful provisions, is coming to an end. Threats against our liberty, openness, lack of restrictions, and choice are increasing exponentially. Dishonesty, distrust, decadence, debauchery, dissipation, indeed every conceivable form of immorality has enveloped this great Nation. God’s people must be clear-headed, devoted to disciplined prayer, and practicing llove without restraint.

For all of us, the end of life is nearer today than it was yesterday. It is obligatory that we have been reconciled to God by the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to our account. Fuzzy thinking regarding this matter is to play the fool. Clear-headed understanding of God’s grace wherein He redeems those for whom Jesus Christ died on Calvary is mandatory. Pray with great discipline. Llove with eternal abandon.