"Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation" (Matthew 26:41a).
I was listening to the radio yesterday going home from the church, and they were talking about the first three words in this verse. It is a combination we should be putting into practice all the time. Jesus said to watch, and we do need to keep watch. We need to examine ourselves, our actions, our thoughts, our motives, our reasoning. We need be aware of our issues an faults, but doing that alone will only lead to depression. We need to pray. Ideally we would be in constant contact with God. but what are we praying about? Sometimes people pray in a fantasy world without knowing or ignoring what they really need to pray through.By putting the practices together, we are about to see where we are lacking and we have the only means to really put it right. Think on that.
We can dream sometimes about a perfect world. They are just dreams, but sometimes it keeps us from depression because we have hope. At least until the Rapture. I think that the 1000 years of peace is when God is available to us and it's a time when Christianity is spreading across the world like it is now. I don't think it is a time when there is peace and no war. I believe the 2nd thing is the rapture and that is what we can dream about. In the blink of an eye. I hope I'm included.
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