Light in a Dark Troubled World

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso

"Let not your heart be troubled." (John 14:1)

I write this blog with a heavy heart with prayers and supplications crying out

for the people of Japan and all of South East Asia, after suffering a historical 

 8.9 magnitude earth-quake and subsequent Tsunami yesterday.  I pray the grace
of God to comfort those in their hour of need.

Jesus' final message to mankind in Matthew Chapter 24 is a message of hope. 

It's a message that speaks to men and women in a society where there is deep 

trouble.  In fact, Jesus said this to his disciples as He sat on the Mount of Olives, 

He looked out and said to His disciples, "Let not your heart be troubled."

Then He said to them, "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. If it were 

not so, I would have told you. But I go to prepare a place for you. And if I

go and prepare a place for you," Jesus said, "I will come again."

Jesus said, when you see famine and earthquake in diverse places and pestilence. 

These are signs of His soon return.  Each year, we have 6,000 major earthquakes

plus in the world. In fact, earthquake fatalities in the last 90 years we have

had 1.5 million fatalities from earthquakes alone. Earthquakes are on the rise
in our society. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24." And there will be earthquakes." 

Earthquakes around the world indicate in the increased shaking that all of nature

around the world has been thrown off its course.  Something strange is happening to our planet. 

Why this upsurge in earthquakes with their devastation of broken gas mains 

and burning fires and monstrous size waves of tsunami's?   You can find answers in one of David's most beautiful prayers recorded in Psalm 43:3. “O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and 

to thy tabernacles”.

This same earnest prayer to understand God's answers should be in the 

heart of every sincere seeker for truth. A willingness to learn and to obey 

must characterize all of those who expect to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit. 

To such, the beautiful promises of the Scriptures will be fulfilled. 

Though we live in troubled times, we could bare with the destruction in 

understand God's Word for this dying world.   You see friends, this world 

is not our final home.  We are just sojourners here.  

Thats why Jesus said..."Let not your heart be troubled."  I go to prepare 

a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you," Jesus said,  

"I will come again."

Ia manuia,

failauga p. anoa'i