THE DEAD CIRCUS

            As a special treat, a teacher took her class to visit the museum of natural history. The children returned home very excitedly, and, rushing into his house, one of the little boys greeted his mother exuberantly, saying, “What do you think we did today, Mother? The teacher took us to a dead circus!”

            I know not how the world will end, and I think no one else does either. We do our best to interpret the clues the Bible gives us. Yet, I suppose, we in our limited understanding are as disconnected from the true work of God toward the fulfillment of his Kingdom as the children were from the exhibits of the museum of natural history. 

            What we see of God's movement is awe-inspiring. Yet, it may not be what we think it is.

            Perhaps we all could use a dose of humility when it comes to teaching about the end of the world… as we know it.

 

Story Source: Edmund Fuller

Do You Know Where You’re Going To?

Legend has it that former Senator Dwight W. Morrow was on a train departing from New York City back in the first half of the twentieth century. Suddenly, he became aware that his railroad ticket was missing.

Talking to himself, he said aloud, “I must find that ticket.” Morrow was a wealthy man, and one of the nation’s most recognizable, consequently, the conductor said to him, “Don’t worry about it, Mr. Morrow. We know you had a ticket. Just mail it to the railroad when you find it.”

Morrow responded, “That’s not what’s troubling me. I need to find it to know where I’m going.”

It is a terrible thing to not know where you are going.

I am glad to serve a God of history who knows where He is going with it.