Some people just don’t get it, no matter how much they talk about Christianity, and seem to read the Bible, or imply that they’re interested in Jesus Christ. They just don’t get it.

I was listening to one of the commentators on TV as he talked with a panel of experts on the Middle East, and the channel was putting faces and quotes on the screen as the news people went along. And someone named Richard Cazik (kay-zik?) started making a statement that seemed like he knew what the trouble over there is going to lead to, but the second half of his statement knocked his whole idea in a cocked hat. Here is what he said: “Some day, Christ will return and when He does, each of us will have to give an account…..of how he has treated this earth.” It turned out he was a conservationalist, and his idea of the future hinges on saving the trees and the frogs and things like that. He seemed to be acquainted with the Bible, but closed by showing that he has no concept of how important our souls are, as the Middle East brings us closer and closer to the end of time. He failed completely to realize that each of us will give an account of how we have treated our own souls and Jesus Christ.

Another of the panel seemed to have some concept of the futility of our trying to bring peace to those countries when he…Dennis Ross…said “You might settle a political conflict, but you can’t settle a religious conflict.” He had that right. People have a tendency to make whatever they please out of the Bible, and you can’t change them. Only Christ can change them, and even then, people have been given the right to refuse to be corrected.

The fact is that ever since Isaac and Jacob were born, there has been fighting in the Middle East, and it will continue until Christ comes. Our concern at that time will not be about conservation, but of where our souls will live in eternity. If you haven’t settled that in your own hearts, I’d suggest that now is the time to talk to Christ about turning to Him. Yes, I’ve said that before and no doubt I’ll be saying it again as long as this little program continues. As Barney Fife said so often, “This is big Andy…this is really BIG!” Think about it.

37BT Bill Thornton December 25, 2006