I am so glad the campaigning years are behind us for now.  I just wish the hateful and hurtful posting I see on social media would stop.  But, I know that everything must play out just as HaShem has planned it.  This brings me back to 2 Timothy 3: 1 - 5.  Read this and think about the world as it is now...

"Moreover, understand this:  in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times.  People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power."  (CJSB)

As the footnote in my Bible says:  "there will come trying times, characterized by moral and spiritual decline.  This will be accompanied by natural and social disasters, and validated by Messiah's own description  (Matt. 24-25; Mark 13; Luke 21:5-36)    As Rabbi Yochanan says, 'The Son of David will not come except in a generation which is either completely righteous or completely guilty'(Sanhedrin 98a)"

Look around this world.  What do you see?  Now is the time to press into the Father and set aside anything that distracts from that focus.

I'll take the weekend off, but will be back with some other tidbit next week.

Shalom,

JO