How to Turn Bad News Into Good News - Part 2

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Because you’re reading this you know about the end time prophecies to be fulfilled in the years ahead of us. You know what’s coming—the truly bad news that “the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness…” (Romans 1:18). You know that society as we know it will self-destruct in a world war described as the Great Tribulation. Bad news aplenty!

In Part 1, we looked at two strategies to find personal good news (a positive way forward) in the swirl of all that bad news: 1) acknowledge the excitement of our time in history, 2) be a bridge from the collapsing world today into an incredible world tomorrow when Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of God rules on earth.

Now, here are two more ways to make good news out of bad news:

3) Make reasonable plans to live your life

As a young adult you have your education to get, a trade to learn and career to work. You can anticipate dating (the chaste kind), then marriage and a future family. You have places to go, sights to see and lessons to learn. You have a life to live in the service of Christ.

Get good counsel, make and work those plans for your life, but remember that Jesus is coming back to earth after a time of terrible trouble. Whether the years before His second coming are few or more, your goal—and every true Christian’s goal—is to be caught in mid-stride living by and earnestly contending “…for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).

4) Prepare to stand and deliver

You, and perhaps your family, were specially called by God long before He will open the eyes of the rest of humanity. You were called for a glorious purpose: to live for and, if need be, die for the true Jesus Christ of the Bible.

Our modern generation, especially Americans, loves happy endings. We don’t do tragedies well. Yet we all know soldiers who loved their countries enough to risk or give their lives in battle. True Christians are not violent and don’t serve in this world’s militaries because our allegiance is to the Kingdom of God (see John 18:36), but we are invested in a dynamic, spiritual war already. Are you ready to risk and if need be give your physical life for the King of Kings of that Kingdom?

Some in the true faith will do just that—as Jesus specifically indicated (carefully read Luke 21:10-18). Pray and consider this vital part of your calling. Prepare to stand and deliver you own personal example and word of true living faith in God and endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2:3)!

Eventually the bad news of the frightening times leading up to the return of Jesus Christ will resolve into good news as He establishes an unprecedented time of peace on the earth! You need to be there, so seek God, commit to live His way of life and obey Him! Take a stand for truth now