Despise not the prophesyings. (5:20)
Lunch break was over; it was time to go back to work. Feeling a little depressed, Javier laid aside his Bible, which he had been reading as he ate. He loved God's Word, but some things in it were simply disheartening. Prophesies about the end times – about times that seemed startlingly close to the ones that they were living in today.
Javier didn't particularly want to think about those hard times that would come – harder times then even he had ever even known – if not for him, then for his children. He didn't particularly want them to have to go through the things that the Bible talked about.
But then again, wasn't that what his job was? To teach them, to get them ready to meet the LORD, so that they wouldn't have to suffer those things? Wasn't that why they all four had a family devotion every night? Wasn't that why he and Carmen had taught the children how to pray? Wasn't that why Isabel and Marcos were being homeschooled for now, so that they could get that good, Godly foundation that they needed?
A smile tilted his lips upward as he went back to his job. Maybe he just needed to trust God to move in his children's lives and in the lives of those around the world, and wait and see what happened.
The ninth chapter of an eleven-chapter endeavor centered around eleven verses in 1 Thessalonians. Reviews make my day; thanks!:)