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So often as Christians we become preoccupied with peripheral aspects of our faith. We can get focused on persecution, and live somberly, or on deliverance and see demons everywhere or prayer and start counting petitions on beads or minutes in a prayer closet.  But all of this misses the point, our heart and mind and eyes is not to be fixated on any pf these things but on Christ Jesus Our Lord, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2). Why do we allow things, even good things to hide our Lord behind a veil? Why do we become so distracted for the apple of our eye? 


I have spoken to fellow Christians so divided on the end times, whither they fall into eschatological camps Premillennial, Amillennial, Post-Millennial, Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Partial Trib, or Post Trib that they’d sooner see each other destroyed over their differences than recognize they are brethren in Christ! How sad, that our Lord wants us to be One,  “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me,” (John 17:20-21), and instead our personal last days position and politics makes this impossible. I am not saying we wish these differences away, but beware of devouring each other, “But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.” (Galatians 5:15). 


I believe its key we stop getting bogged down in the Non-Essentials, fixating on our schools of eschatology, persecution, and exorcism, and get back to pure and simple devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:13). Our faith is about Him, the Godhead (Holy Trinity), and what He did and continues to do in a loving relationship with us. If you are in Christ, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come,” (2 Corinthians 5:17) you will begin to radiate His nature which is love, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8). What matters is Jesus, not what camp we are in about the last days, for Jesus is everything, He is God and deserves our worship and attention; and if we fix on Him (Hebrews 12:2) we will reflect who He is, love, grace, mercy, justice, and truth. Amen. 

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